Beautiful Antique Pennsylvania Amish Sewing Ball (with a bit of darned repair, too) Mexican folk art owl I clearly love carved chains

I clearly love carved chains and balls in cages

which is unmarked--providing no clue as to the maker of the glove

including for the ball shaped end at top

and have wanted to find one of these Victorian winder types since learning of their existence a couple of years ago

and also emblematic of the want to preserve pieces of the past and carry them forward) and I believe this is both--a tintype copy I'd guess of an daguerreotype or ambrotype of a painting of a young child

Beautiful Antique Pennsylvania Amish Sewing Ball (with a bit of darned repair, too) Mexican folk art owl I clearly love carved chainsI've been eying old Pennsylvania "Amish" folk art yarn balls like this for quite some time, but this is the first one I've purchased, a nice old one, found in Lancaster county, which is likely where it was made. Functional as pin cushions, there were many variations of these made, but I think it is the ones with "gods eye" type thread work that are the most special, and this one is unusual for the combination of that with exposed knitwork underneath