Stunning 1918 Hopewell Lodge Masonic Silk Ribbon Quilt with Red Crosses (Delicate) candlestick with faces and bodies from

with faces and bodies from classical sculpture and winged angels swooping in amid "objective" anatomical diagrams

as if just pleading to be retrieved and loved

thus yielding wonderfully inky pools of saturated color around its shoulders and neck

and succeeding very very well in holding it together for the long term

and find old emeries and pin cushions a perfect case in point

Stunning 1918 Hopewell Lodge Masonic Silk Ribbon Quilt with Red Crosses (Delicate) candlestick with faces and bodies fromYears ago, I would occasionally find golden cigar silk quilts, which sadly have since become some precious I can never nab them anymore. But even better to my eye, here a little "quilt" made of white silk ribbons with red crosses, stitched together to form a sort of checkerboard of crosses. The ribbons are masonic, produced on the occasion of the 6th Annual Colonial Ball at the Hopewell Lodge, Feb 22, 1915. (F. and A. M stands for Free and Accepted