Wild Hand-sewn Leather Piecework Large, Headless Doll Body with Open Arms! William Charles Palmer ink drawing oil on poplar wood panel

oil on poplar wood panel

two of these boxes once held blocks that comprised Froebel's "Gift 6" (thirty-six wood blocks of three sizes)

Made from an old threaded iron rod-- as an end of day whimsy by an iron worker or machinist

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Wild Hand-sewn Leather Piecework Large, Headless Doll Body with Open Arms! William Charles Palmer ink drawing oil on poplar wood panelA weird and wild one, which I find amazing and perhaps Halloween season is the right time for it, though I really find this doll body quite tender, with these wide arms seeming all about delivering a big, exuberant hug! I understand from the seller that the leather piecework patchwork body was made by an artist who worked in leather and came from his estate. I don't know more than that, but the leather itself is heavy, and beautiful, and skillfully