Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball Weston toy company but surely this bowl was

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

I like to imagine these were the names of crushes or prospective future wives

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

Lots of nails

Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball Weston toy company but surely this bowl wasI'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