Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper brutalist ceramics A beauty of an antique

A beauty of an antique 12 sided geometric pin cushion

so that one can pop out an animal and then punch it back in

or olive pits

and this framed piecework block just struck me as a really beautiful thing

Incredible Folk Art Painted Antique Iron Cow Bell With Cast Iron Clapper brutalist ceramics A beauty of an antiqueThis amazing thing, quite a potent object I think, resonating in all sorts of ways. What a face, smiling but also perhaps a bit haunting, in very old, very crusty paint that clearly weathered the elements for many many years, with a red painted mouth stretching from one end to the other and perhaps a second eye like a shadow below the right one. Some old yellow paint around the edges too. The round, cast iron clapper inside produces the most wonderful