Satisfying Antique Velvet Pin Cushion, As Found primitive carved tool 30 minutes with a little

30 minutes with a little weight on it and it will lie completely flat

did a series of drawings very late in life of floating forms composed body-less facial profiles

and the pins fit smoothy through the tabs in the panels

) Other than the missing teeth

There is tons more about Rudy’s fascinating life online

Satisfying Antique Velvet Pin Cushion, As Found primitive carved tool 30 minutes with a littleI look at a lot of pin cushions such perfect examples of the human compulsion to make even the smallest and simplest of utilitarian objects special and while this is not a fancy one, there is something about its roundness, and the gray tan velvet dyed (now very) pale blue at the very center of the top and bottom, and all of these pins stuck in it that make it, to my eye, quite a satisfying little thing. Sweet and lovely. 2 3 8" in diameter x 2 1 18" t