Very Fine Antique Needle Lace Crowing Bird, Framed  haydenville ma and those amazing long legs

and those amazing long legs and tail

7 3/8 x 4 15/16 in

photos document one side then the other

as it the two might merge into one

As with that drawing

Very Fine Antique Needle Lace Crowing Bird, Framed  haydenville ma and those amazing long legsI can't get enough of figural lace, and this particular type style of needle lace is my favorite sort (I believe Belgian in origin), with what looks like a million tiny tight knots making up the bird alone. The wonderful spiderweb like field surrounding it here suggests a nest to me, as if it might have come with open beak to feed the babies, though as the bird appears to have a comb and wattle (launching this a wonderful arch of triangles, like a