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Stockinette Dolls

These dolls (above & right) are made from stockinette also known as cotton jersey knit, which is ribbed and stretchy. For this type of doll, the fabric is sewn into tubes and tied to form the head, body, arms/hands, legs/feet.
Some of the Topsy-Turvy dolls have been made in stockinette.

Antique dolls: Russian peasant doll in stockinette and Basque boy doll with stockinette stretched over pressed/ moulded faces.


 

 

< This doll (left) was made using a Paperclay 
moulded face over which stockinette 
was stretched and glued before painting.

Moulded face dolls tend to have stockinette applied because it is stretchy.

   
IZANNAH WALKER DOLLS have oil painted faces and limbs. However, the faces were first made using a moulding technique. 

The dolls are  classified as Stockinette, since either the whole doll or the head and neck portion were covered with an external layer of stockinette or similar webbing. The latter was then fastened to the features of the cloth forms by stitches or paste and they are then placed again in the press. They are tightly pressed together and secured by sewing or gluing their edges to each other. Their faces and limbs are then painted with oil paints. 
They also have moulded faces


Painted stockinette Izannah Walker dolls

Waldorf dolls  are made by wrapping wool stuffing around itself into a ball and then shaping it with the help of cotton string and stockinette tubing.

Kathe Kruse makes dolls that are hand sculpted with  moulded bodies, covered with cotton stockinette.

Typical Norah Wellings'  dolls also had stockinette painted faces.