My Handkerchief display

 We are in a "cool down" but not for long as it will reach 102 later. But for now the sliders are open and Murphy is in and out . These magnetic screens are great and he learned quickly to just push through them. I hardly believe it has been a week since my last confession  post. Time is moving ahead of me. I have been busy.

I asked The Brother Alan if he would make me something and of course he did....

a wood frame about 2 x 4 feet with chicken wire attached. It is perfect for

I wanted to display my handkerchiefs just like this! This is only about 50 of my collection. I used clip clothespins to attach.

Let me show you a few of them:

growing up during the 50s and 60s, we used hankies most of the time. Some of mine are in this collection others were given to me later. I have printed ones like these 2...

Some are fancier with scallop edges and machine embroidered flowers....

others have appliqued designs. These cherries are sheer fabric.
 

These are crocheted edges . The pink flower is machine embroidered.

The blue tatting on this one was done by my Aunt Angie, mom's older sister.  I believe she did this early 50s on a machine embroidered hanky. 

I crocheted this one in the mid 70s from an old book which I still have. 

Some of these are special to me. This is one. One Christmas mid 50s, my Aunt Margaret and Uncle Sonny (dad's younger brother) had very little money to spend. Christmas Eve we all gathered at Mama and Papa Piccirilli's house for celebration and exchanged gifts. At the time there were 9 children to give to. Aunt Margaret bought 4 girls a box of 4 hankies of which one had an initial on it...P for Piccirilli  and  2 with the letter L for 

La Fazia. The 3 boys received regular men's hankies with a border. This will always be special because no matter what we still received a gift. 

Just look at us... the corner shows the date June 1951 which means this was taken December of 1950.

These are 2 church dolls made from hankies. You may know about church dolls, if not....they were made from hankies with cotton to stuff the head and tied with a ribbon or even a piece of cloth. The hands were just a knot made on two corners. No face, nothing to make noise but they kept little girls quiet. If it fell, again no noise. The ribbon could be removed if it needed to be washed. I hope you enjoyed my hanky pictures.  The Amish also make a church doll. I will take a picture of mine to show you.

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