Evocative Old Hand-sewn Doll Body with Wooden Arms and Many Mends handstitched where she studied wood engraving

where she studied wood engraving under Noel Rooke

There's a little wear around the edges and corners of the board

smudges and toning here and there

This might be my favorite of all

perhaps the heads of a pair of griffin

Evocative Old Hand-sewn Doll Body with Wooden Arms and Many Mends handstitched where she studied wood engravingI just couldn't resist this one, who lost her head (I believe likely a Minerva type German tin one) along the way but which I find all the better without one. I just love the patchwork of grain sack bust giving way to carved wooden arms, pink abdomen, plaid underwear of sorts, and blue purple stocking legs, embroidered with what look like mushrooms or umbrellas or arrows down the side. Plus all sorts of mends and reinforcements. Quite a thing! Early