Vintage 1960s Flora's Hand Hooked Pot Holder Hot Pad - Made in Cheticamp, Nova Scotia - Bird Design woodlands Dobosh Torte

Dobosh Torte

First invented in 1851

(from a Marshall Field and Company advertisement

- 24 chapters run the gamut of meals from breakfast to dinner

At one point in time it held onto a previous owner's hardware

Vintage 1960s Flora's Hand Hooked Pot Holder Hot Pad - Made in Cheticamp, Nova Scotia - Bird Design woodlands Dobosh TorteA 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