Wonderful Old Stocking Doll with Button Eyes, Darned Nose, and Bandage-Like Cap drawinbg with other little amusing bits

with other little amusing bits and fabulous illustrations throughout

Hollywood Regency

and then there is the child next to a totem pole

designed by Grete Prytz Kittelsen for Cathrineholm

Wonderful Old Stocking Doll with Button Eyes, Darned Nose, and Bandage-Like Cap drawinbg with other little amusing bitsTotal 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