Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball Weston toy company and to folk traditions

and to folk traditions

or forget-me-nots

on ledger paper and in very good condition

Lots of nails

both great

Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball Weston toy company and to folk traditionsI'm drawn like a magnet to antique hand sewn toy balls like this; there's something about the piecework required to yield a (nearly) round ball that feels like quite a feat of construction to me, with the result like a three dimensional quilt. And the variety of browns (seems to me a combination of leathers and oil cloth) on this makes it seem as if in conversation with everything from old leather medicine balls to geometrical solids a perfect tactile