Antique Silk Tumbing Blocks Quilt Fragment with Cut Paper Template Backing neighbor puppet done by someone long ago

done by someone long ago who clearly loved their birds

(Forgive the glare in these images

a mid-western Coney Island of sorts

and clearly their good design sense carried through to their signage

I guess barbed wire balls are a thing people made

Antique Silk Tumbing Blocks Quilt Fragment with Cut Paper Template Backing neighbor puppet done by someone long agoThis is a remnant from what I believe was probably a full scale quilt or table covering long and narrow, which I might just pin to the wall to let hang down, tumbling vertically down the wall! For me, it is the reverse side, showing its construction with cut paper templates used to form each facet of the blocks, around which silk scraps were wrapped and sewn down that is the most beautiful, with print on a few of the scrap paper squares. A few seams