Materials Used for Internal Doll Form
o 48 - wire bread ties (skeleton)
o 8 - cotton balls (money bag)
o 4 - sheets of newspaper
o 1/2 of a 2 1/2" styrofoam ball (hat)
o 1 - clear plastic sheet (eyes)
o 1 4x4" mat board (neck and bottom of shoes)
o Elmer's art paste
o Elmer's glue
o Acrylic paints - red, purple, green, pink, white and black
Materials Used for Bead Work
o size A gold nylon thread
o size B white nylon thread
o size B black nylon thread
o 34-gauge silver beading wire (teeth & neck)
Seed Beads Used
25 colors of Japanese size 15/0 glass seed beads in the following colors:
o ceylon pale grey
o ceylon pale pink
o ceylon pale yellow
o ceylon silverlined silver
o fancy amethyst
o fancy dusty rose
o fancy forest green
o fancy orange red
o fancy peach
o fancy rainbow yellow
o goldenrod
o luster light pink
o luster pearl
o metallic dark gold
o opaque black
o opaque red
o opaque light red
o opaque white
o silver lined green
o silver lined light blue
o silver lined light gold
o transparent rainbow black
o transparent rainbow coablt
o transparent rainbow dark gold
o transparent rainbow orange
Other Beads Used
o Czech size 13/0 24KT gold glass seed beads
o Czech size 16/0 opaque black glass seed beads
o 1 - 4mm faceted fire polished bead crystal AB
o 3-10mm wood beads
o 6 - 6mm glass druk beads
o 7 - 3mm facted fire polished beads garnet AB
Body Creation Techniques
I created the Doll form completely by hand; no machines or electrical appliances
were used. I first made the papier-mache by stirring newspaper, water
and art paste together. I then made three newspaper balls for the head,
jaw and nose. Next, I covered those balls with the papier-mache mixture.
When those dried, I cut them open and pulled out the newspaper balls
I used to form the molds with. I then re-glued two of them back together
and used one ball as two halves to form the jaw. I cut out the eye sockets
and glued a clear plastic sheet over them inside the head. I made the
hat out of one half of a 2 1/2" styrofoam ball and wire twist ties, which
I then covered with papier-mache. The body skeleton I made using wire
bread tie twists, which I then covered with paper and paier-mache. As
I covered it I used a paint brush handle to smooth and form the body.
The entire body form is hollow with the exception of his hands and ears.
Beading Techniques
I used peyote as my primary stitching method with my own style of increasing
and decreasing, in tube, flat, and round flat. Brick stitch is the second
stitching method I used. I also used a lazy stitch method with thread
and wire. I beaded the beads on his collar and hat in peyote and brick
stitch. The only places where the beads are actually sewn to the papier-mache
form are through the eyes, around the nose and inside the ears.
Size of Doll
11" high, 11" wide, 7" deep
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