Beautiful Old Wooden Handled Chalkline carved puzzle cube black silk or satin over

black silk or satin over a sturdier nude fabric

constructed with a spun bamboo frame lacquered with a cinnabar color and incised with traditional decorative patterns including bird at the very center of the lid

Very good overall condition

shifting in nature from one side to another

as exemplified here on both sides

Beautiful Old Wooden Handled Chalkline carved puzzle cube black silk or satin overThis old wooden chalkline tool just struck me as really beautiful, most of all for the blue of the chalk dyed string, which varies in tone and makes it feels like a painting to me! The spool holding the string rotates on the handle in order for the string to be unwound and stretched taut, and it could certainly be put to use once again, though I'd be very content to treat it like a sculpture and just set it somewhere to be admired. 8 3 8" l x 1 1 2"