Lovely, Delicate Old Hand-cut Brown Paper Quilting Template pheasant and quite an existential feeling

and quite an existential feeling one too--starting down into the void

with terrific banded pattern around the sides created through a wax resist technique

probably to hold a potholder or two

With a little digging I figured out that the Combination Cash store captured here in 1906 in flames was a wholesale and retail department store located at 88 Merchant's Row in downtown Rutland

Lovely, Delicate Old Hand-cut Brown Paper Quilting Template pheasant and quite an existential feelingI think this is really beautiful, with details giving a better sense of the paper, with what looks like blue watercolor around the edges, which is what must have been used to draw the outlines, free hand it would seem, before cutting it out. A few more PA quilting templates listed today but I believe this one older than those, and especially delicate. Found carefully folded up as shown pretty amazing it has survived all in one pieces, with no evident