Hand-dyed Linen Rag Ball with Gorgeous Color box with flowers it is composed of matchsticks:

it is composed of matchsticks: burned at their tips

these might all once have held pins/metal rods

The heads I believe are composition

Well worn but all the better for it and in excellent structural condition

shiny brown glaze on his belly and great reactive black glaze on his back

Hand-dyed Linen Rag Ball with Gorgeous Color box with flowers it is composed of matchsticks:I've sometimes admired but never felt really compelled to buy ragballs, until finding this one last week in Upstate New York. I have no idea if the linen is old or was hand dyed and cut up two weeks ago, but I don't really care; I think it is a very beautiful thing. Approx 4 inches in diameter, with loose threads here and there.