Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball northwood pottery Sound and stable

Sound and stable

seems consistent throughout

watercolor and ink of watercolor paper

very tender feeling doll I think

Really a lovely one to live with a think

Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball northwood pottery Sound and stableI had one other ball like this several years ago, and learned that sometimes when the leather skin came off a baseball softball, people would wrap the center in black cloth tape like this. To me it's like a more succinct and visceral version of a rag ball, wounded and wound, looking almost as if coated in tar. A beautiful and evocative thing. Approx 3" in diameter and in good, tightly wrapped condition.