Wonderfully Awkward Antique Silk on Silk Embroidered Bird relics with these huge yellow eyes

with these huge yellow eyes and wide open

and three fat nails at the base holding the doorstop piece firmly in place

and I would guess a hundred years old

with awesome incised Egyptian-inspired drawings

and look even better in person (there is a little glare on a few of the photos

Wonderfully Awkward Antique Silk on Silk Embroidered Bird relics with these huge yellow eyesA little bird very much after my own heart, wonderfully awkward and hard trying! Silk thread on silk ground, hand dyed I believe, making me think this earlyish 19th century, I'd think done by a girl fairly early on in developing her embroidery skills. The feathers of the wings are quite glorious, like flame stitching, but it's the funny beak and dangling little feet that really get me. Love. Framed as found, under glass in a newer gold painted wooden