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Topic: Who's got the balls?
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Fire Stryker
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posted 03-27-2003 03:13 PM
    
I *think* one of the MoL books is the closet you will come. I forget which one it's in, might be Household objects that shows the pieces and I think a sketch.Other than that... -------------------- ad finem fidelis
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Dru
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posted 03-28-2003 08:48 AM
I have made some leather balls based on the ones pictured in the MOL Household book. I sewed them up and stuffed them with wool. They work pretty well.Dru -------------------- Dru Shoemaker
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Jeff Johnson
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posted 03-28-2003 09:56 AM
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Originally posted by Dru:
I have made some leather balls based on the ones pictured in the MOL Household book. I sewed them up and stuffed them with wool. They work pretty well.Dru
I was thinking they were Jamie's, but maybe they were yours. What was the pattern, Dru? I'm recalling "quarters" or "orange"... Moss was a period stuffing in applications where you wanted cheap, light & fluffy - specifically seen it used in the toes of shoes.
Perhaps it'd also be good for larger balls where lots of cloth would have been
heavy & expensive? Thoughts? -------------------- Geoffrey Bourrette
Man At Arms
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Dru
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posted 03-28-2003 12:19 PM
There are two different patterns illustrated in the MOL book. The one that I have had the best success with was the one that was quartered like orange sections. The other is two circles and a strip sewn between them. I have made a workable one, but it is nowhere near as nice as the others. As for stuffing, there is one that is stuffed with moss and there are descriptions of balls stuffed with horse hair, wool, feathers and scraps of cloth. While I used good wool roving because it was all I had on hand, I'm sure that scrap wool and short fibers would probably have been the more common source. Dru -------------------- Dru Shoemaker
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