[Pennsylvania Folk Art in Woven Paper, Late 19th Century]

Title: [Pennsylvania Folk Art in Woven Paper, Late 19th Century]

Publication: [Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?], circa 1880.

Description: Woven paper art, presumably a child's work from the late 19th century, incorporating what appears to be a block-printed wallpaper. From Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, according to a previous owner's note. Navy blue paper woven with red wallpaper, with block-printed silver and bronze fleur-de-lis, flowers, and other decorative elements over a red-striped and pink-dotted ground, with a partial logo of the wallpaper manufacturer on the verso. 6 x 6 inches. Wear at edges and two pinholes at corners, else remarkably intact and well-preserved. Very Good. Folk art expert Jim Linderman writes of these woven pieces, "Once fairly common, but increasingly hard to find, these 19th century schoolgirl craft pieces are among the most underrated forms of early folk art."