Wonderful Old Stocking Doll with Button Eyes, Darned Nose, and Bandage-Like Cap hand painted sign Pages 11 and 12

Pages 11 and 12

these boxes feature in museum collections around the world

Perfectly aged condition

It's seen some use for sure--most curiously

Wonderful Old Stocking Doll with Button Eyes, Darned Nose, and Bandage-Like Cap hand painted sign Pages 11 and 12Total love at first sight with this doll, which has only grown deeper since. What a face, animated with so many good details, including a darned patch at the nose and this scrap of woven red textile for the mouth, stitched on as if in a rush with a few wild blue stitches. Much more carefully done is a linen head covering that makes me think of a bandage, with beautiful hand stitched seams around the edges and down the back. To my eye so full of life