Lovely and Smart Antique Silk Covered Color-blocked Folk Art Sewing Box decoration round headed steel nails for

round headed steel nails for eyes on the angular head

labor intensive execution

white and blue silk thread (now pink

but so much better for being perfectly preserved in the clay body of a utilitarian vessel

with a warm and substantial presence

Lovely and Smart Antique Silk Covered Color-blocked Folk Art Sewing Box decoration round headed steel nails forThere is a specific type of antique geometric pin cushion pin keep, constructed of card board with a different piece of colorful silk on each facet (see photos for one example not the best but you get a sense), that is very close kin to this box; the construction, and the feel, is just the same. I'm fairly obsessed with those, but have never seen one like this, and it feels like a special present of a little sewing box to me. Very modern feeling, too,