Large Wound Thread Ball with Colorful Embroidered Stars shot glass with nude a heart on its front

a heart on its front

and it is 100% the perfect vessel for holding pens or paintbrushes or toothbrushes or wooden kitchen spoons

23 1/4 long x 2 3/4" wide and 1 3/4" deep

and an embossed mark at lower right

Large Wound Thread Ball with Colorful Embroidered Stars shot glass with nude a heart on its frontI didn't know it when I found it it just looked like a lovely folk art wonder to me! but I believe this is a Japanese Temari ball. From what I've learned, these originated in China and were introduced to Japan around the 7th century A. D., becoming a folk art form and craft, originally constructed from kimono remnants and later thread, with the brilliant colors of the thread symbolic of wishing the recipient a brilliant and happy life. I'm really not