Lovely, Delicate Old Hand-cut Brown Paper Quilting Template pheasant coarse horsehair bristles (with just

coarse horsehair bristles (with just a few lighter mixed in)

It's the wonderful work of Emile Bluteau (1931-

probably to hold a potholder or two

with terrific banded pattern around the sides created through a wax resist technique

but has many of years left in it

Lovely, Delicate Old Hand-cut Brown Paper Quilting Template pheasant coarse horsehair bristles (with justI think this is really beautiful, with details giving a better sense of the paper, with what looks like blue watercolor around the edges, which is what must have been used to draw the outlines, free hand it would seem, before cutting it out. A few more PA quilting templates listed today but I believe this one older than those, and especially delicate. Found carefully folded up as shown pretty amazing it has survived all in one pieces, with no evident