Lovely c. 1800 Hand-drawn Patterns (Presumed for Embroidery), Ink on Watermarked Laid Romany Spartan I really love little things

I really love little things that feel like prompts for imagining whole lives and worlds

while the Makah are located across the straight at Neah Bay

and wheels around smoothly

which immediately came to mind when I came across this etching

When not in use it looks great hung on the wall from a nail

Lovely c. 1800 Hand-drawn Patterns (Presumed for Embroidery), Ink on Watermarked Laid Romany Spartan I really love little thingsI believe this these drawings were made as embroidery patterns and I can very much imagine them executed in very fine silk thread. I love them rendered in ink though, on early watermarked laid paper, with wonderful passages of detail, tiny stars and crosshatching and squiggly lines with dots to either side. Lovely. Late 18th very early 19th century European I believe, with watermark detailed in last photo, which I have not researched. 12 7 8" x 7 3