Set of 5 Antique Photogravure Postcards from National Archeological Museum at Athens drawing of French girl with colorful paper covering on

with colorful paper covering on the sides and reverse

The women who made Grenfell rugs and mats were supplied with the materials (burlap for the backing

It looks to me that it was blown into a form

So many charming 19th c

woven entirely of it I believe

Set of 5 Antique Photogravure Postcards from National Archeological Museum at Athens drawing of French girl with colorful paper covering onI've developed something of a thing for old images of Classical sculpture some sort of layering of the ancient and the romantic that makes them feel even more of another world, perhaps. This is a set of five photogravure postcards from, I believe, the National Archeological Museum at Athens, c. 1910. I found them digging through an old box of photos at an antiques show, alongside snapshots taken at archeological sites all from the collection of an