Like a Wounded Heart, Much Worn Antique Tuscarora Beaded Strawberry Emery covers Really a lovely and special

Really a lovely and special feeling thing

silkscreen on heavy paper sewn to bamboo frame

very well done repair on the loop end of one of the keys

Lacquer over wood I think rather than papier mache as it is harder and thinner walled

crossed axes behind him

Like a Wounded Heart, Much Worn Antique Tuscarora Beaded Strawberry Emery covers Really a lovely and specialThis strawberry shaped emery (like a small pin cushion but filled with emery powder for sharpening needles) appears once to have been entirely covered in red fabric, but all but a few tiny bright red bits around the top are gone, revealing the linen lining underneath. I like this darker color, and in all of its distressed ness, including what looks maybe like some scalding across the lower half, it looks to me like a badly bruised and wounded heart!