Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland and also like that it

and also like that it looks a bit like a miniature rusty globe

oil on board

in the nice old wooden frame I found it in

and fertilizer in addition to beef tea

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

Beautiful Old Black Cloth Tape Ball sunderland and also like that itI 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.