Great Old Confetti Mat on Unusual Crocheted Structure antique party game There is a good amount

There is a good amount of scratching to the surface and a little roughness around a few edges as pictured--signifiying that this is a tool meant to be used

and its treatment looks to me to include freehand painting

Our young illustrator turned to pencil for the terror-ridden parts of the story

I think of the people living in that house hearing the horn blaring and feeling the house shake every time the train passes

wonderfully painterly and sculptural both

Great Old Confetti Mat on Unusual Crocheted Structure antique party game There is a good amountFor me it's as much about the back as the front on this old "confetti" shag table mat I'm not a connoisseur, but I've not seen one constructed like this before, with the colorful strips of fabric, mostly silk it appears, pulled through a knit crocheted structure. Very lovely, and making it especially good for hanging, which is what I would do (I'd just stitch a loop of thread to either corner and hang directly on the wall from two pins or small nails