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THIS ENTIRE
SERIES IS NOW SOLD OUT AND DISCONTINUED. IT IS SAD TO SEE THEM
GO, BUT A NECESSARY PART OF MY DOLLMAKING JOURNEY. I AM SURE
MANY OF THESE WILL NOW BE AVAILABLE ON EBAY IF YOU PATIENTLY
KEEP WATCH.
FINISHED DOLLS are no longer available, though I may choose to
make some now and again as limited offerings.
WHAT WILL BECOME OF THESE KITS? Because these are favorites (after
all, they have been inspiring us for over 100 years), I will be
reformatting them as patterns and instructions (not kitted) with
the hard to find items available "a la carte". You will
be able to click on each doll to see not only a picture of that
doll, but the supplies list for that kit so that you can see whether
or not you might need a supply from the Supplies Pages of this
website and you will also have the a la carte items for each kit
listed with add to cart links to buy if desired. Each pattern will
include all of the same printed pages of instructions, a picture,
patterns for all the pieces and a supplies list. These are listed as they are ready as "New Pattern". Those not yet reformatted may be purchased as Reprints (of the original kits).
Look for these at a later date. Prices
will range from $15 - $24 plus any a la carte items you require.
Note that #6 (Raggedy Girl) and 6-1 (Raggedy Boy) will be combined
as a single pattern and all 3 of the Folk Style Izannahs will also
be combined into a single pattern.
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HISTORICAL FOLK DOLL #1 -
Features a 14"
doll with primitive hands. The fingers are individual, but
not as hard as it would seem if the special technique is followed
(uses hemostats - sold on Supplies page) which enables sewers
to turn tiny things right side out with ease. Or, a simpler
alternative hand pattern is supplied. She has a dyed mohair
wig and elaborate clothing with high button shoes. Very much
worth the extra work to make her.
New Pattern $18 Add
to Cart
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HISTORICAL FOLK DOLL
#2 - This 15" all
cloth doll is simpler than #1, but nevertheless quite winsome.
Her most outstanding feature is her hair accomplished with
rug braiding woven wool and a border of stitches. She has an
embroidered face and a simple needle-sculpted nose. Her clothes
include a dress in a print and style common for the times with
a slip and pantaloons beneath. Her very humbleness is her charm.
Reprint $18 Add
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HISTORICAL FOLK DOLL
#3 - No
collection of American folk dolls would be complete without
some Black dolls. This one is a 13" flat-bottomed Mammy-style
doll whose ample figure is dressed in old reds. Her cookie
jar shape is accomplished with a wooden base supplied in the
kit and her exaggerated facial features are embroidered.
New Pattern Plus (includes her wooden base) $20 Add
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HISTORICAL FOLK DOLL
#4 - A set of two 12" Amish
dolls. Unlike many of the popular cute versions that are everywhere,
these dolls are serious and meant to exemplify the expert sewing
accomplishments the Amish are known for. In keeping with their
traditions, the dolls remain faceless and plain fabrics are
used for the clothing.
Reprint $18 Add
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HISTORICAL FOLK DOLL
#5 - This doll is about
14" tall and has a very three dimensional shape unusual
for cloth dolls. She belongs in the genre of dolls that had
painted cloth surfaces, a technique used to make cloth dolls
simulate more expensive "boughten" dolls. Special
painting and antiquing techniques make the paint look old and
worn. She has a mohair wig styled along with her clothing for
the mid to late 1800's. Her delicate face has a stencil to
help and a real plus for this kit is the addition of extra
clothing and shoes in case she gets to be a real doll.
Reprint $18 Add
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HISTORICAL FOLK DOLL
#6 - This 14" doll
represents the many home-made versions of the famous Raggedy
Dolls that were made and sold commercially beginning in 1918.
Besides the blue dress with a tan print apron that I chose
for its old-fashioned look, there is also a choice of a set
of reds.
HISTORICAL FOLK DOLL #6-1 -
Representing homemade versions of the Raggedy Boy doll.
He has a plaid shirt and homespun blue pants.
New Pattern (both dolls combined) $18 Add
to Cart
NOTE: See the Supplies page for
more of this yarn hair and buttons for eyes to make additional
dolls. (Still available) |
 
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HISTORICAL FOLK DOLL
#7 - I wanted to include
a doll in the series that exemplified cloth dolls, in their
more primitive and simplified forms, but went more into the
costuming and included a bonnet. This 16" doll has all
those features on a 16" body in the Queen Anne style wearing
an elaborate gown in mauve colors.
Reprint $18 Add
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HISTORICAL FOLK DOLL
#8 - Every collection
of American folk dolls must include a Topsy-Turvy or a double-ended
doll. This one has a black doll and a white doll on either
end as it is believed that early examples were originally created
during Civil War times for the children of families who often
played with their slave children counterparts and so both dolls
were represented and probably sewn by black slave women.
Reprint $18 Add
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HISTORICAL
FOLK DOLL #9 -I wanted
to include in this series a boy and girl pair as examples
of all of the many dolls that were made as pairs or as
somehow belonging to one another (two of my all-time favorites
are a pair of wonderful boys). I also wished to do dolls
which celebrate hand work as their main feature, but which
use a nicer style of body than just plain flat. The style
chosen for this 15” pair is more dimensional while
still being the easier technique that flat offers, by utilizing
a dart system under the chin (and in the back) that was
picked up by the Columbian dolls and other dolls I have
noted in my studies of early cloth dolls. Included in the
kit are pre-printed heads (fronts and backs) with the design
to follow for the simple embroidery. A pattern is also
included for future dolls to print out on your ink-jet
printer. The boy has the 1800’s short pants with suspenders
and a collared shirt, while the girl has a pocketed apron
over a simple dress covering her slip and tucked pantaloons.
Both dolls have simple shoes and stockings, stitched fingers,
knees and elbows and a new method of antiquing that gives
the most realistic results yet. This kit is straight-forward
enough for those who may be just starting out, although
modest sewing skills are advised. These are both about
15” tall.
Reprint $18 Add
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HISTORICAL
FOLK DOLL ~
PRIMITIVE DOLL WITH HAND-STITCHED HAIR -
This is a 15" primitive doll originally designed as a
class doll exemplifying some of the most important details
of primitive cloth dolls. The techniques to make her are ones
I have been evolving toward since beginning with cloth dolls
many years ago. When the instructions are followed, she will
genuinely look old and worn. One doll made in my class actually
fooled an antiques dealer. Her vintage look is enhanced by
the sweet pink calico that is so much like actual pink prints
from the 1800's, that she can't help but look old. Her hand-stitched
hair and simple face and stitched fingers make her a pleasurable
doll to make and her dress, slip, tucked pantaloons and easy
shoes are very much what may have been done in the 1800's.
New Pattern $18 Add
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HISTORICAL
FOLK DOLL ~
THE NEW YORK DOLL - This
16" doll has made herself quite famous by being chosen
to be on the cover of a well-known book of American Folk Dolls,
by Wendy Lavitt. She is such a good doll for a cover as she
has just about all the best details of this type of doll. Separate
fingers, a wonderful and exaggerated face and hair all carefully
embroidered, including her remarkable feather-stitched eyebrows,
and a costume of just-right simplicity and detail. She has
with her the same small cat the doll in the photo has. Silkscreened
for embroidery and new antiquing methods included.
New Pattern plus $20 Add
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HISTORICAL
FOLK DOLLS ~
FOLK STYLE IZANNAH WALKER DOLLS (USING
KNIT FOR HEADS) - There
are few cloth dolls with quite as much charm and presence as
the dolls made by Izannah Walker in the last half of the 1800’s.
The dolls themselves are so rare and costly that only a few
museums and very fortunate individuals have them, but they
are certainly at the top of any list of early cloth dolls that
admirers wish to see. Her dolls had heads that were molded
in two parts in cloth and then covered with a cotton stockinette,
and although I plan to one day create one that is constructed
in this way, for which Izannah is the first woman to hold a
US patent (obtained in 1873), I felt that this collection would
be incomplete without a simple one that could be sewn at home
from patterns and easy techniques. This version adopts the
very round head which is sewn of stockinette as a separate
shoulderplate with applied ears and a raised stitched nose.
Her demure countenance is accomplished by special pattern transfers
and painting techniques to make it easy for non-painters to
achieve the look. Body construction is like most real Izannah’s
with the same hour-glass shape torso, separately attached thumbs
and painted on shoes. Of course her clothing is also typical
with a lace-trimmed tucked dress, ruffled apron, slip and tucked
pantaloons. The cat is a period toy sometimes seen in primitive
portraits of children from which it is thought that Izannah
took her painting style. Three original kits included the girl, the boy and a black girl.
New Pattern Set of 3 Dolls $28 Add
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THE ORIGINAL 15" COLUMBIAN
SERIES (Large size dolls)
Many years ago, the Wenham Museum
asked me to do a small kit series of the Miss Columbia doll who lives
in their wonderful collection of historical dolls. This doll, originally
a painted cloth 19" tall doll, is probably the most famous of
the many dolls made by the Adams sisters in the late 1800's, having
traveled led the world raising money for children's charities in
1900. The doll on her tour raised a remarkable amount of money for
the times and everywhere she went, accompanied by her trunk, diary,
coat and bonnet, she was given gifts by the children she visited.
Many of the gifts still live in the museum with the doll and her
things. The original dolls and kits that I did were in a 14" size
which have been brought back as a pattern set. This
is a pattern for an
11" version
of the same doll. The extensive
pattern for this larger size contains
patterns and instructions for
a girl with two outfits and bonnet, boy, black versions, other clothes including
the coat and bonnet, plus the trunk and diary.
This series of kits has been brought back and made into a complete
set of patterns including all of the items below (5 former kits)
with a face stencil and printouts of the trunk and diary labels included.
$36 Add
to Cart
Click
here to see photos
  
SMALLER 11" SIZE:
This
is a pattern for an
11" version
of the same doll. The extensive
pattern for the sweet 11" size contains
patterns and instructions for
a girl with bonnet, boy, black versions, other clothes including
small sized coat and bonnet. $18.00 Add
to Cart
For PDF version sent by email $18 Add
to Cart
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