GOD BLESS OUR HOME, Wonderfully Crude Make Do Embroidery on Wire Mesh Screen, Original Frame folk art jesus 8 3/4" t x 7"

8 3/4" t x 7" w x 2 1/2" d

I would guess 1940s or so as that seems to be when crepe paper dolls were pretty popular

and they seem to me to make a pretty fabulous tabletop sculpture or component of a dramatic centerpiece

sometime between 1830 and 1842

GOD BLESS OUR HOME, Wonderfully Crude Make Do Embroidery on Wire Mesh Screen, Original Frame folk art jesus 8 3/4" t x 7"I do believe my favorite find of the week; I just love this. I'd call it a "make do" version of a punch perforated paper embroidery, done instead on a wire mesh screen (which one imagines was left over from screening the porch or barn yard or making a strainer) and, happily, with this red yarn forming the most perfectly crude, matter of fact lettering possible a complete 180 degrees from the fancy to "God Bless" lettering of more common punch paper