Peg doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, fabric, wire, silk and plastic
Measurements
115 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660701
Summary
A doll made from a wooden clothes peg and dressed as a nun. Her hair and facial features are either painted or drawn on in felt pen, and her arms are made from white plastic-covered wire. She is wearing a habit made from black silk, which is open at the front of the skirt to reveal an underskirt of the same fabric. Underneath she has an all-in-one garment made from white satin edged with lace. On her head is a wimple made from white stiffening fabric, over which a veil is made from black silk with a lower layer of similar white fabric.