Vintage 1960s Flora's Hand Hooked Pot Holder Hot Pad - Made in Cheticamp, Nova Scotia - Bird Design woodlands (from a Marshall Field and

(from a Marshall Field and Company advertisement

If dinner is to include ladies

5" inches length (with fringe) x 14

The pewter rim bears some dents - most likely from how it was carried as caused by thumb indents

In fully functional (and pretty

Vintage 1960s Flora's Hand Hooked Pot Holder Hot Pad - Made in Cheticamp, Nova Scotia - Bird Design woodlands (from a Marshall Field andA Canadian tradition since the 1920's {HISTORY} The story of Flora's Hand Hooked rugs begins in the 1920s with an American woman named Lilian who traveled to the picturesque province of Nova Scotia to teach the art of rug hooking and wool dying. What started as simple instruction in a unique handicraft soon bloomed into a regional art that made the ladies of Cheticamp, Nova Scotia prized artisans. One of those artists was Flora Boudreau who began