Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel Berber The layers of pink and

The layers of pink and cream cut paper under the glass lid remind me of antique school girl valentines and paper dolls and woven hearts

which I believe are African and made of bone and what appears to be silver or silver plate (it is quite shiny

though I am not entirely certain of its age

could easily be added

Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel Berber The layers of pink andI'm always admiring old hetchel, which were used to comb flax in preparation of spinning it into thread, but this small scale one is the first I've really felt compelled to purchase, as it seems to me just about the most primitive, distilled iteration of the tool I've seen, and pure sculpture at the same time. Just two rows of old iron teeth here, beautifully rusted and bent here and there, a handful of them a little loose, such that they can be