Recently I purchased some lots of vintage hankies on Ebay and was amazed at how nice the embroidery and cutwork can be – nicely scaled for miniature pillows, tablecloths, pillowcases! How these ladies of bygone eras were able to make such delicate designs on such wispy fabric is beyond me. It was so hard to cut them up, too. Just think, how many tears were dried on these hankies – maybe by someone who lost a loved one to a war or buried a child. One hanky I found among my grandmother’s…
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