Showing posts with label Swiss dolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swiss dolls. Show all posts

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Doll-A-Day 2023 354: Cloth Doll

  Number 354 is this cute little girl.


She's only about 7 inches tall. She has a pressed cloth face, and stockingette arms and legs.


Her face looks to be hand painted. Her dress has faux straps across the chest, and real lacing.


Her sleeves and apron are a very fine cotton. She has tiny socks, with stitching detail along the tops, and felt accents.


And little felt shoes.

Her legs appear to be stitched up the fronts.

  She has a beautiful face. I'm not sure what her hair is made of. It's shiny, and made into two little braids. Her felt hat frames it all nicely.


I assume those felt pieces are meant to be feathers.


  I would guess her to be from the 40's. From the looks of her, she's possibly meant to be Alpine/Swiss or German. Anybody know what her costume is?


  That's 354. Check out today's other posts as we try to catch up for the end of the year!

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Doll-A-Day 2017 #254:Lu Ann

  Today we're looking at a doll I got at Salvation Army last week. She's LuAnn.



LuAnn is a Heidi Ott doll.



Heidi Ott is a Swiss doll artist.



LuAnn is 12" tall.


She has a vinyl head,chest plate, and limbs,and a stuffed cloth body.


When I closely looked at her hair I noticed there were different shades of hair, and even a white one!


That's when I realized she had real human hair.
 

That kind of creeps me out. I think Ivy thought it was because I thought they got it from dead bodies! She said, "They just cut it you know." I know, but it's still kind of gross.

"Really?"

LuAnn's head can tilt side to side and up and down, but her limbs aren't poseable. They don't hold a pose, since they are cloth at the shoulders and hips.



LuAnn has painted features.

What a pretty face.

Her hair looks more brown in person. in these pictures it looks a bit red.



Apart from her big hat, she's wearing a dress, pinafore, and bloomers...





...and these strange things that look like spats, but I think they're just to protect her ankles from the string that holds her in her box.


Here are a few more pictures of the very photogenic LuAnn.




See you again tomorrow for, oh...how about a doll?