Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion fine Pima basket Framed: 18 7/8" x 16

Framed: 18 7/8" x 16 7/8"

and I believe it dates from the early 20th century when it would have been used as a festival dance mask

- but I might be inclined just to wrap a string or ribbon around the handle and hang it on the wall

and a poem on the other hailing safe return

Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion fine Pima basket Framed: 18 7/8" x 16The existence of this oversized mushroom pin cushion makes me completely happy, and it could be even better with some stick pins stuck in it, perhaps carefully arranged to spell out a word or two across the expanse of its cap. I am not an expert on pin cushions so am not completely sure the age of this, but the velvet looks hand dyed hand painted to me, and the construction of the mushroom very carefully done, with tiny, barely visible hand stitches