Fancy Inlaid Wood Darning Ball with Treenware Cup brush with light wood handle with a wonderful form and

with a wonderful form and fantastic patina from age and use

showing a few small scratches/cracks in the wood

which suggests perhaps she is actually better used for growing herbs to complete dishes gleaned from Moosewood or my favorite

but I have found no other like it

Fancy Inlaid Wood Darning Ball with Treenware Cup brush with light wood handle with a wonderful form andI 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