Charming Small Antique Doll with Marvelous Embroidered Face and Hair printing blocks It's nice and substantial

It's nice and substantial

A tube inside at the neck allows a finger or two inside to animate this endearing creature

gatekeeper

a hot air balloon overhead

6 1/2" across at handle

Charming Small Antique Doll with Marvelous Embroidered Face and Hair printing blocks It's nice and substantialShe's a small one, but quite a special one I think, sewn together from what looks to be white silk, and then with this marvelous face that reminds me of stump work pictures, especially the long stitches of her hair. The way that the embroidery of her facial features has held onto the batting (stuffing) even while the silk fabric has worn away around them I find pretty incredible, and just beautiful. And then just this simple polka dotted homespun