Beautiful Old Pennsylvania Scrap Wool Yarn Ball carved wooden natsuke and was beautifully constructed

and was beautifully constructed

I love these three men engaged with one another in a sort of naturally occurring conversation pit enveloped by a landscape in greens and browns and pinks--seems almost like a therapy session set in nature

the name originated from a series of chairs found in the Bargello palace in Florence with a "flame stitch" pattern

and right side up for one means the other is upside down

with original repair to the split at its rear

Beautiful Old Pennsylvania Scrap Wool Yarn Ball carved wooden natsuke and was beautifully constructedI found this one in Pennsylvania, the land of much coveted antique, elaborately yarn thread wrapped pin balls, of which I've had a few. I was drawn to it like a magnet for the colors and for not having seen one like it before, and thought I would do some research to find other examples but I really haven't found them! I believe it was made kind of like a pom pom mostly as a means of making something beautiful out of scrap bits of yarn. For me it has