Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland through tiny cuts in the

through tiny cuts in the leather wrap

with a patch at one corner

Another reminder of what an exciting hub of cross-disciplinary thinking and practice MIT has been

but it feels rather more like a lobster boat in spirit

oil on board

Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland through tiny cuts in theI 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.