Beware of Modern Love, Old Punch Paper Needlepoint, Framed hand drawing skill and patience can enable

skill and patience can enable

which shows a small loss at lower right but I’d leave just as is

Larger brush is 10 1/2" long

and contested histories

I am not certain of their age

Beware of Modern Love, Old Punch Paper Needlepoint, Framed hand drawing skill and patience can enableAs I've said before, the diversity of messages on these old punch perforated paper needlepoints just kills me, and here is a perfect case in point! I'd love to know exactly the context in which this one was stitched perhaps by a young woman recently betrayed? Or by her mother, sending her a message?! Whatever the case, quite a thing, made all the better by the period at the end of the phrase; no equivocation there! And with a loss to the lower left