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New Fangled Wee Folks

These dolls tip their hats at today.
They're drawn from pop culture, books and movies, Brother Cadfael and Pirates.
Dolls Inspired by the songs of
Townes Van Zandt and Richard Thompson.
It is a world populated
with Free Spirits, Punks and Hippies.
Here find everyone from monks to swabbies.

All Wee Folk are 22"
handmade, Individual, unique.
All dolls are signed and dated. 

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Cap'n Jaq

“And don’t they wear the bulliest clothes!
Oh no!
All gold and silver and diamonds!”

Well, ok, no diamonds,
groovy belt, though.
The chemise was the first garment.
The rest grew from there...
Black cord pants...
A waistcoat of black and white silk lead me on a button treasure hunt...
Then she brought me
macaw feathers,
itty ones.
They were all that I needed. Done.  Oh, hoop earrings.

Jyll

“Now and then, we had a hope that If we lived, and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”  

‘Us’ being girls! One Halloween ‘He’ got to play Pirate, the wooden sword... How I envied that sword...
Girl Pirates rule!

She all started with red gold hat fabric…
a scrap of French ribbon…
embroidered red and black,
skirt and vest...
 silver buckles and belt… ostrich feather…
Mother of pearl…
thick lustrous braids…

I wanted to name the doll for the vibrant colors of her dress. Leila Is an Persian name meaning ‘Night’. The blue of a star lit desert night. The blue of the Bedouin people.


I find Inspiration In the oddest places and oddest things. Shopping with my Great Auntie I spied a stack of dish towels. What colors! Stitches run across, bobbing and weaving in and out.

The towels served well as pinafore styled aprons, and I pin tucked the bloomers to match the neat rows of stitched colors.

“What do pirates have to do? They… take ships… And bury treasure where there’s ghosts and things to watch It”

And here would be one such ‘thing’. A Scottish Water Imp in the traditional coat covered in dozens of hand-stitched shells that gives him his name. The shirt is raw silk.  Six different kinds of yarn were used to give him a dreadlock, sea weedy mane.

He’ll nae hurt you, but beware! He’ll make you lose your path, leading you away from his treasure, and trip you Into loch or sea.

I've always loved the story of "Little Red Riding Hood"
and as I researched images for a series of dolls a Hungarian picture book came my way.
No soft girly-girl all bows and basket.
Punky hair, kilted skirt, hoody,
with just a wee scrap of black rose jaquard for tights
I was off!
Red denim hoody
black embroidered cami,
garnet earring for a necklace,
silver hoops and conch belt,
seedbead friendship bracelet

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Updated 4/2/10

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