Antique French Palais Royal Crochet Tambour, Lathe-turned Mother of Pearl. Portrait on Board which is a donkey

which is a donkey

and collecting these is quickly addicting

At the far ends

They are zippered

consisting of those gorgeous leaves & game bird figures

Antique French Palais Royal Crochet Tambour, Lathe-turned Mother of Pearl. Portrait on Board which is a donkeyWomen's art. Women's work: crochet and laces made with the variable hook crochet tambour as you see it here. The sections are threaded and hollow and it stores its own variation of hooks within, to be mounted at the end and tightened in with the little cog pin that is seen at the side. These were usually a tool in a larger grouping of sewing and vanity items, fitted to the interior of a grand sewing box, or travel vanity case. Most often these cases