Gloriously Colorful Old Velvet Piecework Seven Point Star Paris sketchbook Take your watch off

Take your watch off

with a finely and wonderfully carved wooden back (oak

Great patina

which would not be hard

Gloriously Colorful Old Velvet Piecework Seven Point Star Paris sketchbook Take your watch offI found this one at the Rhinebeck show last weekend and thought it fantastically beautiful like the sort of 19th c. geometric watercolors or ink drawings I am always hoping for but rarely finding, and all the better for being stitched together of lushly colored, carefully cut pieces of velvet. And the flip side is as good as the front in a different sort of way, showing the backing as sewn together of pieces of what I believe is sack cloth, some