SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from the The Dollar Weekly Pennsylvanian Lithuanian costume I believe it is made

I believe it is made of animal hide (Kulit means skin

It's been quite a long time since I had a notebook approaching the beauty of this one--and I've never had one with SO MANY boldly and ornately penned fraktur type headers

and some staining and crazing to the interior

at a time when thousands of Inuit sled dogs (qimmiit) were killed in a government initiative to pressure Inuit people to abandon traditional subsistence hunting and ways of life

here distinguishing the White from the White-Faced Ibises

SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Quilting Template Cut from the The Dollar Weekly Pennsylvanian Lithuanian costume I believe it is madeI was excited to find this, and two more listed today, folded up together in a sleeve in Maine this week; I recognized them immediately as old quilting templates, but didn't take the time to open them up in the shop. When I got home I was surprised, and delighted, to find that they are quite early ones the Pennsylvania newspapers they were cut from bear the year 1856, and one of the newspapers is in German, so these are Pennsylvania German indeed. Cut