This gorgeous ‘patchwork’ paper of elegant, victorian curliques on black, matte white or gold made for a very easy wrapping job:

giftwrap, wire edged and mylar ribbon, smooth and ‘woven texture’ bows; hot glue & tape; 25dec25 sony ILCE-7C, sony 90mm macro, f/2.8, ev 0, 1/800s, ISO 100, WB: cloudy; rotated and lightened slightly; also cropped & scaled in gimp

I found two bows, one silver and one gold with slightly different textures, which along with glittered transparent gold wire edged ribbon and silver curling ribbon made for a very quick, effective job—which, since I was in a tearing hurry, I really appreciated!

giftwrap, wire edged and mylar ribbon, smooth and ‘woven texture’ bows; hot glue & tape; 25dec25 sony ILCE-7C, sony 90mm macro, f/2.8, ev 0, 1/800s, ISO 100, WB: cloudy; rotated and lightened slightly, cropped in gimp

One downside of all the speed is my imperfect framing, which has tended to cut the bottom corners out of the frame. C'est la vie...

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