Lovingly Crafted Antique Needlebook with Homespun Checked Fabric Cover antique spillikins The name of the species--in

The name of the species--in this case it looks to be "Russ dagueletti" is incised on the bottom of the piece

I might use it as a serving dish

and perhaps especially the back

the largest island in the Arctic Archipelago and in the territory of Nunavut

with a hand and face in pale yellow and hair and perhaps a foot rendered in graphite) represents an angel of sorts

Lovingly Crafted Antique Needlebook with Homespun Checked Fabric Cover antique spillikins The name of the species--inThis little needle book make have seen better days, but it's so sweet, and invested with such lovely details, I think well worth preserving. I really love the use of black line on the homespun red and white and black checked fabric that covers it, and then lovely pale yellow embroidery along the edges of the two lay inside end pages with fancy knots binding them together. The three pages for needles are wool, the largest center of them red with pretty