European Ornamental Holiday Stocking

Big green leaf scrolls curl across terracotta orange, under a shaggy golden cuff.

This is an ornamental holiday stocking. It is embroidered fabric. Holiday textiles such as stockings, ornaments and table linens are often brought out each year and passed down within families. Orange-rust stocking with large cream blooms and sweeping lime-green leaves woven across it. The cuff is wrapped in a chunky braided band with a dangling fringe on one side, and a twisted brown loop rises at the top. It is 4 inches wide and 6 long.

All the swirl a small foot could be asked to carry.