Peg doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wooden doll
Measurements
110 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665460
Summary
A wooden doll made from a clothes peg, depicting a lady wearing a tartan crinoline made from tartan ribbon sewn in layers. She has painted facial features and brown wool hair. She wears a white lace head-dress, with lace also at the cuffs and neckline. She has flesh coloured stiffened jersey material hands, and in her right hand she holds a posy of red flowers. She has two wool underskirts, one red and one white.