Tiny Octagons, Miniature Scale 19th Century Paper Pieced Quilt-work turned wood horsehair brush Glazed a striking

Glazed a striking

smallest 1 5/8"

and the scale allowed the carver to pack in a lot of detail

and also itself sort of evincing the gesture of a fall

but with its narrow head and long handle think it would also prove useful for all sorts of tasks

Tiny Octagons, Miniature Scale 19th Century Paper Pieced Quilt-work turned wood horsehair brush Glazed a strikingTo my eye an exquisite little thing a fragment of a larger quilt, perhaps, or perhaps its maker had had enough! The method of making here was is called English paper piecing with each shape cut from a paper template, then wrapped with fabric, yielding a perfect, sharp cornered octagon. (Much more common were hexagon quilts, typically arranged in honeycomb patterns; here, because of the octagons, and their linear arrangement, the maker interspersed