Unusual Antique Woven Paper Cross bell skirt decorated with the same ball

decorated with the same ball and thread pattern

Very good condition and certainly still usable as a chalkboard--there are scratches here and there to the slate but it is still in very good shape

the portrait mounted to backing paper at the time of its making and signed Edna + Lirella

I think this carved wooden whimsy chain could actually be put to work hauling something

and all of them

Unusual Antique Woven Paper Cross bell skirt decorated with the same ballI found this one in Pennsylvania along with the cut paper star just listed both unusual examples of antique paper craft. I've handled a lot of woven paper works by now, but never have I ever seen a woven paper cross, and a very very finely done one this is, double sided, in this excellent combination of yellow and navy. Really quite a wonder! 3" x 2 1 8" and in very good condition, very tightly and precisely woven. One tiny flagged piece on the