Woman with Lace Making Pillow, Self-Referential Antique Bobbin Lace Doily in Original Frame Italian opera painting who is also a choreographer

who is also a choreographer

a perfect object exactly as it stands and if there were ever something that felt holy to me

but the other holds it closed just fine

but the two sides now seem pretty firmly joined

and then this great splint flower spreading across the top

Woman with Lace Making Pillow, Self-Referential Antique Bobbin Lace Doily in Original Frame Italian opera painting who is also a choreographerA bit hard to capture this well due to glare, but I've done my best it is celluloid rather than glass in the frame, original to it, c. 1890s 1900 I believe. I love a piece of antique handmade figural lace, and I especially love things that are self referential, and here we have both: a piece of antique handmade bobbin lace with a picture at center of a seated woman with lace making pillow on her lap. (I've included a photo of the type of pillow used