Fancy Inlaid Wood Darning Ball with Treenware Cup brush with light wood handle Great with a sprig or

Great with a sprig or two of red berries or evergreen

Each measures approximately 5 1/2" diameter x 7/8" tall

Another beautiful box

but might guess 1940s

I love how the design plays with optical perceptions: focusing on the light brown it reads as a series of repeating abstract geometrical patterns

Fancy Inlaid Wood Darning Ball with Treenware Cup brush with light wood handle Great with a sprig orI 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