Beautiful Old Pennsylvania Scrap Wool Yarn Ball carved wooden natsuke with original repair to the

with original repair to the split at its rear

only to the good I think

but otherwise very clean and structurally very sound

there are gaps at either side where the hand meets the handle that make it seem unlikely that it would work as a mold or cutter of some sort

Plenty rusted

Beautiful Old Pennsylvania Scrap Wool Yarn Ball carved wooden natsuke with original repair to theI 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