What are Primitive Folk Art Dolls?
This style of cloth doll, which are also known as Folk Art dolls, dates back to the first American settlers and Native Americans, who used any suitable materials that were available to them to produce dolls for their children. Since store produced dolls were considered a luxury and women loved to sew, redundant sugar and flour sacks were transformed by mothers, aunts and grandmothers together with scraps of material from their sewing baskets to make dolls for their children. Primitive Dolls remain a popular and recognisable style in modern doll making. Yet despite their ordinary, rustic look, the primitive cloth doll is believed to be one of the most difficult to achieve. Enormous attention to detail is important to give them an authentic old, worn and grubby appearance, whilst others are given the classic appearance without too much aging and wearing embellishment. Today antique, tribal and whimsical folk dolls all fall into this ‘primitives’ category. So how is the look achieved? Wel
