Not new, exactly.
Perhaps I ought to say
'finished doll', as I made the doll ages ago,
and never knew what to dress her in.
Then I was given a
lovely old handmade doily.
It had beautiful frayed lace
scraps of torn petit point work
and little triangles of white embroidery.
Too damaged to use,
I salvaged what I could and
it inspired the doll's dress.
So, now she's dressed in
tea-dyed cotton, with cotton lace.
I'v used more vintage lace
in a dark ecru
and tea-stained some Venetian lace
for her overskirt.
Eleanor.
Polymer clay and cloth
About 10" tall.
There's raggy fragments of the lace
on her long cotton drawers,
and a nice piece
draped around her shoulders.
I left the edges raw,
to show the scraps were
authentic and old,
so she has a
shabby chic look.
She started out like this.
There the head is baked
but not yet sanded,
The arms are ready to bake.
This is her sewn into her cloth body.
It's limp, which allows her to pose
in a very natural relaxed way.
I hope to find that chair she's sitting in,
as she does rather suit it.
(Forgive the ugly, horrible faux stone wall behind her.
I'm working on it...)
to take some better photographs.
