Fancy Inlaid Wood Darning Ball with Treenware Cup brush with light wood handle showing a few small scratches/cracks

showing a few small scratches/cracks in the wood

I love how the design plays with optical perceptions: focusing on the light brown it reads as a series of repeating abstract geometrical patterns

which I just love for its shape

with recipes for cocktails from the Absinthe Drop to the Ramos Gin Fizz interspersed with ads for El Encanto Department Store

Fancy Inlaid Wood Darning Ball with Treenware Cup brush with light wood handle showing a few small scratches/cracksI thought this lovely old darning ball needed a spot to sit, so am including a sweet old turned wood cup as a freebie. The ball is beautifully crafted of a light and darker wood, and I think may be German, 1920s 1940s or so. The turned blonde wood cup may be older. A pretty pair to set somewhere to admire if not to put the ball to use mending a sock now and then. The ball measures 2 1 4" across. The cup is 2" tall x 2 3 8" wide. The ball is in overall