Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball Weston toy company Their maker certainly had a

Their maker certainly had a way with color and wonderful details

which I think is just there to keep it tight in absence of a washer

but surely this bowl was once a basket--there is a one remaining piece of the handle on the interior of one side

It looks to the me like the hull of an upside down boat that these two are sitting upon

Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball Weston toy company Their maker certainly had aI'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