Characteristics of the football’s surface–including the pebbling of the leather, the stitching of the panels, and the laces ... to practice with them. These cut brass dies were used to emboss ...

They come out of a quiet street in Melbourne’s east, get kicked about 200 times and retire from the big leagues to be bumped ...

A leather hide is hand-stitched ... on a table and oval shapes are cut out. They are then lined with rubber and cotton to help maintain their shape. The panels are sewn in halves, which are ...

A cloth lining is attached and the panels are dried, cut to exact size ... the supervisor of the football making operation — carefully checking the thickness of the leather panels to ensure ...

In the 1800s, football players used balls made from inflated ... in the 1950s with the acquisition of the Ohio-Kentucky Leather Co. Wilson is now owned by publicly traded Finnish sports equipment ...