Lovely Old Hand-painted Butterfly Needle Keep, Canvas and Green Felt lawn bowling and nice brass center pins

and nice brass center pins

but close inspection reveals her to be a hand-colored engraving

each hand stitched around the edges

but is also similar in manner to early American chalkware pieces I have found of horses and deer and cats

Taller: 1 9/16" w x 1 1/2" t

Lovely Old Hand-painted Butterfly Needle Keep, Canvas and Green Felt lawn bowling and nice brass center pinsSo many little things people once bothered to make beautiful, including so many sewing related things. This butterfly shaped needle book needle keep is a perfect case in point I think, the hand painted exterior made of a canvas type material which gives it a nice stiffness and weight, and then green felt body at center and green felt lining, with one little page inside for needles. Id be inclined to lie it flat and pop it in a frame, or just pin it