Beautiful Antique Piecework Ball in Best Soft Palette Ives and Company which unfold to reveal a

which unfold to reveal a velveteen interior designed to hold Singer sewing machine attachments

or in direct sun

but the hair samples themselves are stitched onto the blue paper so I might be wary to try to remove them entirely

with a hand-decorated slide-top box

Beautiful Antique Piecework Ball in Best Soft Palette Ives and Company which unfold to reveal aI find these old homemade cloth balls just the loveliest things. Usually, one finds them sewn together of pieces of oil cloth, most often in two alternating colors. But here, the cloth is more like linen, and the color more as if hand dyed, soft and radiant. And a most as beautiful a combination of three shades as could be. Perhaps the yellow, with shows a bit of a different texture, once had an oil cloth sort of surface that long ago wore away;