My relative in Hungary hand embroidered this beautiful table doily (for lack of a better word). I'm not normally into the "frilly" but this is so gorgeous. I love the white on white.
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| It still has to "relax" a bit from being folded for so long. My grandma said an old Hungarian trick is to lie it between the mattress and boxspring |
I've seen a lot of colourful Hungarian embroidery (I have a few small pieces and also some articles of clothing, including a bitchin' embroidered wool jacket) but not many pieces with the white on white. So pretty! Its neat, too, because the embroidery styles vary from region to region.
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I wanted to put it on the kitchen table, but I think it might be too messy in there . . .
. . . so for now the puffins have a new home (they used to living on the dining room table; see here).
I am thinking a big, pottery bowl will look great on the new embroidery. The puffins looked weird on the embroidery. I'm thinking one of the stunningly simple Shane Norrie pieces I have been ogling (see here) would look amazing.
This embroidery, by the way, is so gorgeously done that it took me a few hours to realize I had it backward.
