Product Description
Generously sized and guaranteed not to pinch the person who sits against it! The feisty land crab on our WILLIAMSBURG Catesby Crab Needlepoint Throw Pillow comes from naturalist Mark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, written and illustrated between 1731 and 1747. Colonial Williamsburg's rare book collection holds an original copy of this 18th-century book. Hand-stitched with wool threads.
Features
- Needlepoint crab throw pillow
- Hand-stitched
- Inspired by 18th-century print
- 100% wool face
- Velvet backing
- Polyfill
- 16"H x 20"W
- WILLIAMSBURG by Michaelian Home
Product Care
Spot or dry clean.
Inspiration
The colorful Land Crab is taken from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1731-1747) by famed naturalist Mark Catesby. He was one of several 18th-century explorers who ventured to remote areas of the world to document regional flora and fauna. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation holds a copy of the 1771 edition of the two-volume work.
Amazed by their plentitude, Catesby wrote, "in some Places the Ground being almost covered with them, so thick they are . . . the Earth seems to move as they crawl about."
