Mother and Child at Window, Old Folk Art Relief Carving hand-carved wooden swallows all with balletic grace

all with balletic grace

and with the original design booklet showing examples of many structures one might build with them

made of pine I believe

patience and dexterity involved

with just the right amount of rusting

Mother and Child at Window, Old Folk Art Relief Carving hand-carved wooden swallows all with balletic graceThis one doesn't photograph especially well, and the surface shows a little wear and dryness but the face on that baby! His little hands, too, and the long fingered hands of his mother wrapping him from either side, and her lovely face looking down on him, with the cross of the window panes revealed behind a pulled curtain to her left, countered by the waves of her hair pulled back in a bun. Quite a charming and tender thing I think, with the name of