Beautiful Old Pennsylvania Scrap Wool Yarn Ball asian box It seems quite right that

It seems quite right that this Spanish Colonial Anima Sola looks as if he's endured quite a lot--a lonely soul stuck in purgatory

it's just darker

7 1/2 x 4 15/16 in (17

This carved santos is old--I'm not an expert but might guess 18th rather than 19th--and though he lost his head once along the way

which seems both to embody and to critique the phenomenon

Beautiful Old Pennsylvania Scrap Wool Yarn Ball asian box It seems quite right thatI 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