Large Wound Thread Ball with Colorful Embroidered Stars pine wood carving I have looked and looked

I have looked and looked but found no other matador doll out there as wonderful as this one

along with the news that Dieterich was not feeling well and the Rich Boatman's wife was dead

The sides of the cardboard box are covered in woven cloth

One last one from a number of drawings I've list by the same (surely quite young) maker

Large Wound Thread Ball with Colorful Embroidered Stars pine wood carving I have looked and lookedI didn't know it when I found it it just looked like a lovely folk art wonder to me! but I believe this is a Japanese Temari ball. From what I've learned, these originated in China and were introduced to Japan around the 7th century A. D., becoming a folk art form and craft, originally constructed from kimono remnants and later thread, with the brilliant colors of the thread symbolic of wishing the recipient a brilliant and happy life. I'm really not