Lovely
I'm lucky to live in a city with a great Japantown. I could spend hours in the bookstore there, looking through the craft books (I have to look at every single one, since I can't tell what they're about by looking at the spine). Recently, though, I've noticed that I can't find quite so many of the books I'm looking for... I wonder if the secret's out? So now I'm looking for them on ebay, which sort of seems like cheating. But I need my fix.
Japanese craft books are incredible. I especially love that crafty folks there have really revived the 50s/60s stuffed animal look. Lookit (the book, published by Ondori, came with patterns for all these figures):
And here is a lovely and strange tableau of dolls from the same book. My dad was in the Navy and when I was a kid it seemed like every sailor brought back dolls sort of like these for his wife or daughters. The dolls often had large bouffants and huge hoop skirts. I never had one... weep for me...
Cool!
posted by Jess Hutch @ 7:31 PM
2 Comments:
I totally had one of those dolls as a kid. Not as cool as that one (no animal ears on mine) but I remember I had it in the window for like, a day, and it totally faded from hot pink to a sad dirty pink. I don't know what kind of freaky dye they used for that doll, but I think if I had left it in the window for one more day, it would have turned to dust.
At least you had one, Rain. At least you had one (sob).
It's hard for me to tell (I can't read Japanese) but I think an artist takes the dolls and puts them in strange tableaux. Hence the deer ears.
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