Mid 19th Century Folk Art Cutout Watercolor with Paper Collage Russian stockinette doll Oilcloth (also known as American

Oilcloth (also known as American cloth) was traditionally made through a fairly labor-intensive process of treating close-woven cotton or linen cloth (I believe this is linen) with a coating of boiled linseed oil to make it waterproof

making the vase feel akin to a three-dimensional woodblock print

forming a sort of puppy arch

Then 17 evenly spaced (more or less) nails were hammered in along each side to form the loom

showcasing the range of colors offered including seal brown and cardinal

Mid 19th Century Folk Art Cutout Watercolor with Paper Collage Russian stockinette doll Oilcloth (also known as AmericanThis super folky c. 1860s watercolor is challenging to photograph (there's lots of glare in these images), but I'm really taken with it, and it's the sort of thing that, for me at least, sets the imagination wandering. Most curious is this girl, done on white paper collaged onto the painting, with long, curly, pencil drawn hair and earrings and one arm extended in front of her, finger pointing ahead. There are at least four more layers collaged on