Small Antique Punch Paper Embroidery of Dog: Innocence hand-sewn toy other playing with simple geometries

other playing with simple geometries like this one

and the bags with which it is weighted

It feels as if it has some age to it

this young man seems wonderfully at ease

Small Antique Punch Paper Embroidery of Dog: Innocence hand-sewn toy other playing with simple geometriesI continue to be fascinated by these old punch paper embroideries because of the way image and text were combined the more unexpected the combination the better. I might have expected "loyal friend" or "my pet" to accompany this dog, but instead "innocence" which makes this dog seem rather holy! (And, as so many of these were religiously oriented, it makes it feel almost as if this pup on his pillow were a stand in for Jesus!) And so, a good one in