Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball Weston toy company I like to imagine these

I like to imagine these were the names of crushes or prospective future wives

and to folk traditions

Their maker certainly had a way with color and wonderful details

which I think is just there to keep it tight in absence of a washer

both great

Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball Weston toy company I like to imagine theseI'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