The history of cloth fabric dolls stretches back to ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. The history of cloth fabric dolls stretches back to ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. During the late 1800s, ...

Fabric dolls are a direct descendant of the homemade rag doll, and no doll typifies the American image better than the red, white and blue smiling faces of Raggedy Ann and Andy. No one really knows ...

In this new series, we celebrate special interest groups. Whether you get together to play tennis, board games, take long walks, eat lunch, create art, connect with your neighbors or gather with ...

The needle punched the fabric, taking colourful threads along with it while carving designs and stories. This process is orchestrated by two hands that work in tandem, with loose skin showing signs of ...

Hina-ningyo are perhaps the most well known when it comes to the display of traditional ornamental dolls to pray for and celebrate the healthy growth and success of the household's children.

Get ready to dress up dolls of all kinds with this list of 35+ doll clothes patterns. From baby dolls to fashion dolls and even to clothes for an American girl doll, we have a wide variety of patterns ...

Cloth dolls is a tough market to be in. Yet the company behind the iconic Shwe Shwe Poppis dolls has managed to find a regular international market since their debut in 2006. The secret? A moving ...

Dear Call Box: I was passing by the Supervisor of Elections Office and started thinking about Phelps Fabrics, which used to be on the block. Refresh my memory about the shop. - A.G., Southside Dear ...

Harriet Jacobs, who escaped enslavement to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), created these three dolls for the children of writer Nathaniel Parker Willis around 1850-60. Private ...