Gorgeous Old Wooden Printer's Tray curio shelf The much age toned and

The much age toned and stained ribbon to which the needlepoint is attached

but hard to see without a magnifier and otherwise in great shape

)  This one is by Don Curreri (1930-2014)

written in pencil: "please mind your own business"

and measuring 22 1/4" x 23 1/2" not including fringe

Gorgeous Old Wooden Printer's Tray curio shelf The much age toned andThis beautiful thing. I'm not quite sure how all it was used that yielded this incredible surface, but surely some combination of paper and ink and glue or varnish, all hardened now, not sticky, and just truly gorgeous. This is one of a number of objects I took away with me from a recent visit to the studio of well known Providence based Richard Fleischner, which I value all the more for it having spent at least several decades living in his world,