Special Joys by Susan Daul sterlingsilver sides and back

sides and back

Two green gourd trees that are placed on the outside of the gourd

Approximately 24 x 12

Hand-sewn spine using Irish waxed linen thread

but you can simply polish them back to life with a soft cloth

Special Joys by Susan Daul sterlingsilver sides and backFraktur is both a style of lettering and a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art that was influenced by European folk culture. Here in America, the Pennsylvania Germans practiced Fraktur art from the mid 18th to the mid 19th centuries. Fraktur blossomed into a uniquely rich, colorful and iconographic form of expression and were tied to rites of social life, such as birth and baptismal certificates, marriage and house blessings, book