Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball carved folk art people Really fun to look at

Really fun to look at and fun to have around

which is just the right amount of strange

making me wonder if he isn't meant to represent a butler

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Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball carved folk art people Really fun to look atI'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