Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball carved folk art people I believe with the conflicting

I believe with the conflicting meanings of 1 and 4 whistles relating to whether issued as short or long sounds

with clean lines and substantial presence

Really fun to look at and fun to have around

there is something so right about this elusive portrait

It is hard to capture in photos

Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball carved folk art people I believe with the conflictingI'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