Antique 14" African-American Folk Cloth Rag Lady Doll, Red & White Striped Dress

Description

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This auction is for a very special
14" stuffed cloth lady
doll with short rooted yarn hair, with hand stitched facial features and hand-sewn dress!
This slender rag doll was beautifully hand-made no later than around the 1920s.  She has been well loved all these years; not bad for 100 years old!  Unfortunately, she has
a few holes on her dress and some holes on her feet and hands
as you see in the pictures.  She is quite refined nonetheless!
Her thickly rooted black floss yarn hair is so realistic and perfectly frames her hand sewn eyes, tiny nostril, and closed mouth.
Here's the reason why I know she is wearing her original clothes!  The top of her thin, red and white striped, simple long sleeved, knee length, dress is sewn onto and around the shoulder area and around her wrists, so you cannot undress her.  Underneath the striped dress is a sewn on thermal petticoat skirt.  And underneath that is the thin petticoat leggings with lace edging that are sewn onto the hip area!
Her well sewn black (
silk?
) fabric body is packed and solid. Her neck is has a slight bend but can still hold her head up.  Her arms can bend (like she's flapping wings like a bird) and her hips can bend into a sitting position.  No odors to speak of.  There is a
red thread (some has disappeared) sewn around each foot
to delineate the top of shoes.
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