I have a little patch of Jack in the Pulpits in my wild garden under the trees and they never fail to make me smile. Thus, you can imagine how tickled I was to run across this antique damask towel woven in a pattern of one of my favorite flowers. It is made from a medium weight linen and measures 36" x 20.25". It was used but certainly not abused. What a pleasure soaking this back to bright white and pressing it as the pattern come to life. A real gem!
Hand laundered, air dried c. 1900 - 20 excellent condition
Jack in the pulpit
Preaches today,
Under the green trees
Just over the way.
Squirrel and song-sparrow,
High on their perch,
Hear the sweet lily-bells
Ringing to church.
Come, hear what his reverence
Rises to say,
in his low painted pulpit
this calm Sabbath-day.
Clara Smith | 
