Beautiful Old Pennsylvania Scrap Wool Yarn Ball carved wooden natsuke I think the design-- executed

I think the design-- executed in low relief and glazed a lighter brown--is just terrific

which has a drop of 2 3/4"

but otherwise very clean and structurally very sound

Plenty rusted

Beautiful Old Pennsylvania Scrap Wool Yarn Ball carved wooden natsuke I think the design-- executedI found this one in Pennsylvania, the land of much coveted antique, elaborately yarn thread wrapped pin balls, of which I've had a few. I was drawn to it like a magnet for the colors and for not having seen one like it before, and thought I would do some research to find other examples but I really haven't found them! I believe it was made kind of like a pom pom mostly as a means of making something beautiful out of scrap bits of yarn. For me it has