Lovers Hankies
by Ita
This is a "lovers hankies", a tradition here in the north of Portugal. Before marriage, girls embroidered these hankies and offered them to the boy they loved. Hankies used to have mistakes in the writing, and we still do it that way now. This is a miniature, but we also embroider big hankies. I'm sending another kind, all in red...
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