SOLD (for JULIA) - Antique Cigar Silk Quilt with 47 Different Cigar Ribbons sweetheart frame The end has come loose

The end has come loose

and some opium weights as well)

with a little staining on the top (most notably over part of the kimono of the left figure)

they remind me think a bit of Constructivist sculpture and even more so of the costumes in Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet)

SOLD (for JULIA) - Antique Cigar Silk Quilt with 47 Different Cigar Ribbons sweetheart frame The end has come looseI keep snatching these antique cigar ribbon quilts when I find them, as I think they are just stunning. How wise and resourceful of it was for women not to let cigar silks ribbons go to waste, especially brilliant gold ones like these. (Meanwhile, their fathers or husbands were cutting and carving up the cigar boxes to make tramp art frames and the like.) I love the range of silks incorporated into this one (47 different brands by my count) delivering