Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball northwood pottery Sound and stable

Sound and stable

Apologies for the crummy photos

A pretty cute light gray stoop and  darker gray sloped roof

They are fairly large--1 1/2" cubed

watercolor and ink of watercolor paper

Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball northwood pottery Sound and stableI had one other ball like this several years ago, and learned that sometimes when the leather skin came off a baseball softball, people would wrap the center in black cloth tape like this. To me it's like a more succinct and visceral version of a rag ball, wounded and wound, looking almost as if coated in tar. A beautiful and evocative thing. Approx 3" in diameter and in good, tightly wrapped condition.