Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed photo of photo and that there are graphite

and that there are graphite lines still visible at the corners

I do think they are sterling

as they were small enough to easily be conceal in a jacket pocket or haversack

) The pink seal at top makes for the perfect final touch

Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed photo of photo and that there are graphiteTumbling blocks quilts are my favorite so optically compelling, and keeping the eye forever moving around. This piece a fragment or all there ever was I'm not sure consists of hundreds of small fabric squares (most of them silk it appears to me) sewn together, with white basting stitches which would be used to secure the quilt top to a backing still in place; I have not removed it from the frame so am not sure what it was backed with. I rather like