Exactly; have one myself full of pasty ink.
Brava! Thanks.
And another vote for machine woven.
Ah-ha! Thank you!
I love ALL these pieces! Wonderful; thanks.
I believe the small beads are an early version of "Hogan beads," so named as apparently someone thought these bicones reminded them of a Hogan...
Battenberg?
My thought exactly.
Yes, Czech/Bohemian, c. 1950s. Happy to hear "uranium." Means depleted uranium oxide. Can't absorb, though am sure you already know that. I...
Very well said! I agree with the dating per the small table on the center stone.
Agreed; likely not ivory bunny; perhaps tagua nut. The brown open lace beads are from a nut, the name of which I can no longer remember. All the...
Tea cup & saucer, absolutely gorgeous! And my birthday is in six months..............
I suspect it may have been woven and embroidered in Peru for the tourist trade I see no sheen, so it could be of all cotton that they also spun....
Looks to be turquoise repro; could be dyed howlite, magnesite, or chaulk block Chinese "you name it." The nuggets are too uniform, the color is...
Yup, Native American, plains, could be Sioux, but not sufficiently well versed to say, but see https://www.ebay.com/itm/352920520088. It's "lazy...
Me thinks perchance a pair of Fu dogs/temple lions.
:joyful::joyful::joyful::joyful:
Agreed; not whale bone. Looks Oceania/Islander.
That was my wonder regarding the fibers....it 'feels' like silk at this point?
Is it possible to load a close-up of the threads?
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