Pattern-maker, wooden ball game

An absorbing and endlessly creative toy consisting of 250 brightly coloured lacquered wooden balls, and a double sided board, machined on one side with in a square pattern, and on the other off-set in a manner akin to honeycomb, allowing for the construction of both two and three dimensional patterns, both abstract and figurative. Turned, machined, lacquered, and finished in the town of Neuhausen, Saxony near the Czech border and the Ore mountains, an area with a long tradition of wood and toy manufacturing. Ages 3 and up.