Amazing Handmade Bobbin Lace Medallions - Woman and Man (or Ghost!) physiology toe nails painted too

toe nails painted too

There is tearing to the purple velvet on the back

South Africa

with hand-painted decoration for the skirts of the dancing girls

Amazing Handmade Bobbin Lace Medallions - Woman and Man (or Ghost!) physiology toe nails painted tooWhat a lot of work went into making these two bobbin lace medallions or doilies done by hand, with very fine thread (silk I believe) and what a lo0t of patience and manual dexterity required! I'm a huge fan of figural bobbin lace and have seen one or two round pieces like this with a figure similar to the ghost like man at center, but never as part of a pair with a female companion (and what a great skirt on her!) I'd frame them together side by side