The Dog, the Church, and the Sailor: Triumvirate of Antique Thread Framed Photographs handmade sign rock and cloud of trees

rock and cloud of trees

MA for the manner in which it captures a specific way of living within a specific type of architecture in a particular place

typically used to soften and evenly blend oil paint on the canvas

everyone else there swooned over it

eventually traveling the trails across the Rocky Mountains and coming into use carrying gold from the Deadwood to the railroad

The Dog, the Church, and the Sailor: Triumvirate of Antique Thread Framed Photographs handmade sign rock and cloud of treesA group of three wonderful antique thread framed photographs found together near the Hudson River Valley clearly all made by the same person, and a sort of triumvirate of touchstones: dog, church, and (the largest) young sailor, son I presume, though perhaps husband. I come across thread wrapped photos every now and then, but rarely ones as colorfully framed as these, and don't think I've seen ones with thread framing anything other than human