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Stockinette Dolls |
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  Antique dolls: Russian peasant doll in stockinette and Basque boy doll with stockinette stretched over pressed/ moulded faces. |
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doll (left) was made using a Paperclay Moulded face dolls tend to have stockinette applied because it is stretchy. |
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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. |
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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. |
