Rag doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1950 - circa 1976
Materials
Fabric doll
Measurements
210 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658942
Summary
A mid 20th century rag doll dressed in a traditional white wedding gown. Head, arms and body are of stuffed pink stockinette with the legs covered in white stockinette. Facial features are drawn on. She has long curly cream/yellow wool for hair. On her head is a long white stiff net veil edged with cotton lace, and tied at the back of her head with a white ribbon. She wears a long sleeved white nylon dress, gathered at the neck and edged with wide cotton lace. Beneath this she has an underskirt of white broderie anglais threaded with blue ribbon at the waist. A bouquet of white flowers, green foliage and a silver paper fern is attached to her hands with a looped rubber band.
Provenance
One doll from a collection of dolls donated by Mr R.T. Macfarlane in 1976.