SOLD Wonderful Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion: Robed Woman with Book (Mourning Picture?) mocassin shaped These are a bit rarer

These are a bit rarer from what I can tell

Camel measures 2" t x 3 1/8" l

She also looks to me like she's holding a juicy secret

The ash splint structure

SOLD Wonderful Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion: Robed Woman with Book (Mourning Picture?) mocassin shaped These are a bit rarerI've always got an eye out for handmade figurative lace, the folkier and more singular the better, so was delighted to find this piece this week, most of all for the fact that its subject holds a book in her hand! Though I'm not certain, I might guess this was made as a mourning piece, with our somewhat mournful looking woman holding one hand over her heart and perhaps reading a prayer from the book in the other, standing in front of what looks like