Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Folky Heart (One of Two More Just Found) tramp art watch bolder price is for one

price is for one

jet black hair

and really shining rather like liquid gold in the light

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Antique Hand-forged Iron Quilting Clamp with Folky Heart (One of Two More Just Found) tramp art watch bolder price is for oneThe is a 19th century hand forged iron quilting clamp, with one of this sort often referred to as a "heart clamp" for the heart shaped finial on the screw. It would have been used for clamping the fabric layers of a quilt (top, batting, backing) to the rails of a frame while working it, sparing the quiltmaking from laborious pinning, etc. Once a month I go up to midcoast Maine for a show, and once a month, for a few months now, I bring home an old