Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball carved folk art people and intonation as character indicators

and intonation as character indicators

I believe with the conflicting meanings of 1 and 4 whistles relating to whether issued as short or long sounds

making me wonder if he isn't meant to represent a butler

It is hard to capture in photos

with clean lines and substantial presence

Old Hand-sewn Piecework Leather and Oil Cloth Brown Ball carved folk art people and intonation as character indicatorsI'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