Here are the links for my mixed media woven dolls:

Woven Earth Listener Angel  Doll

Dame Julian and Neni 

Three young spritely spirited mixed media dolls 

Mixed media dolls with found objects 

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Several people asked if I had pics of any of my other woven mixed media dolls. Why yes! Here are some:

Homage to Dame Julian of Norwich. I wove her on my inkle loom and several small vintage looms. Her hands and face are crocheted. I used cotton and linen to make her. Her body is wood that I carved before stitching on the weaving and attaching her armature.

This is Neni. She’s another Earth Angel doll.

I wove her on the vintage equivalent of Butterfly Looms.

I carved her head, hands, wings and shoes from wood, and drew and burned the face and patterns for the wings.

The buttons came from Grandma’s button jar so are more than 50 years old.

In my next posting: More mixed media woven dolls

Image Source: Noreen Crone-Findlay(c) 

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I am passionate about small loom weaving.

I have a collection of vintage looms that I dearly love, including Lily Speed oWeave looms and Magic square looms.

Technically, they are not ~weaving~ looms. They are ‘hold your yarn in nifty patterns and go into an altered state of consciousness and tie rhythmically a sequence of interlocking knots’ looms. But, that’s a bit of a mouthful.

Anyhow, sadly, they are not made anymore.

You can still find them in second hand stores and at yard sales – IF you are lucky.

If not, then you pay through the nose to someone on eBay who DID find them.

Well… I am happy as a clam,

because I’ve found the Butterfly looms.

They are a really nicely made collection of flat board looms that replace the vintage Magic Square and Lily Speed o Weave looms.

They’re sturdy beautifully made and really a pleasure to work on.

And they have a lovely little laser cut butterfly, too…. )

I particularly like using the motifs from these looms in combination with crochet.

I’ll post more about them soon. (and more pics, too….)

Oh, the usual disclaimers! No affiliations etc, other than really liking them!

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