Woman in Black with Painterly Tree, Curious Full Plate Folk Art Tintype antique pima figural basket with a terrific rich patina

with a terrific rich patina

I didn't think too much about this small hand-stitched Pennsylvania doll quilt when I scooped it

and perhaps preparing to take action

so here is this one

Definitely hand-woven of wool

Woman in Black with Painterly Tree, Curious Full Plate Folk Art Tintype antique pima figural basket with a terrific rich patinaShe's an odd one, with the soul of a poet to me and, with black paint covering all but the bottom edge of her dress (revealing its stripes), I keep thinking of her as something of a young Sandra Day O'Connor in her black robe, too! As with her dress, the drape at right is painted onto the full plate tintype in black and as with that marvelous passage along the bottom edge, where tintype photo meets abstract painting, so it does again in the very