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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Here are some more of my mixed media woven dolls:

A woven Menopause Fairy Doll

and a collection of my ‘Reclaiming Dolls’ (Dolls that have parts made from reclaimed, recycled or re-purposed components and found objects,  as well as weaving):

I’ve put together a Links posting so you can catch the group of postings on mixed media woven dolls.

Hmm, it just struck me that they are like three dimensional collages. Neat!

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These dolls are more whimsical:

I spun the yarn and then wove them on potholder looms and combined them will all kinds of mixed media: Leather, wood, stones, metal, wire, buttons and more….

Next posting:

More whimsical mixed media woven dolls.

Some of my readers are on dial up so they’ve asked me to not put toooooooooo many pix in each entry.

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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

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I’ve finished sculpting the head:

and have finished spinning the yarn for the doll:

My best friend gave me a bag of lovely merino/tencel:

That I spun on my wheel, then plyed with my navaho spindle:

I warped up the loom

and wove one panel that just didn’t do it for me,

So, I frogged it, and re-warped the loom.

I am one of those people who would rather take something apart and re-do it rather than leave it if I don’t like it.

Taking it apart is quite contemplative, as it allows me to give myself a second (or third or fourth) chance.

I like the feeling that weaving is not written in stone.

Knowing that I can easily unweave a piece gives me tremendous freedom to be very adventurous with my materials.

I’ve just gotten a tiny bit woven on the new warp, so will start taking pics as I get a little more weaving happening.

I’ll post pics as the doll starts to emerge.

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The Journey loom is a lovely small frame/tapesty style loom that was designed by Susan Barrett Merrill. The loom came to her in a dream and she’s been working with her husband to create it in many ways for a number of years.

The first thing that struck me when I put it together was that it looked so much like the wall dollhouses that my dh, Jim, makes me!

The second thing that just blew me out of the water, was reading the chapter in Susan’s book, Zati, The Art of Weaving a Life, about Grandmother Tree. Why did it have such an impact on me? Because I have also written about Grandmother Tree in my book, Soul Mate Dolls: Dollmaking as a Healing Art. I love the synchronicity of that.

I didn’t start weaving instantly…. I decided that I needed to spin some special yarn and complete a doll’s head that I’ve been working on for awhile.

I’ve posted pics of the doll head .

(Jim finds the doll head to be really ‘dark’ …. he thinks it looks really fretful. Well, the truth of the matter is, I sculpted it when I was making the Cornstarch Clay worry dolls, and ‘worried’ energy certainly did come through with it. I put all the worry into it, instead of the worry dolls. )

And photos of spinning the yarn for the doll

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Susan created a lovely process of mindful weaving, and has written gorgeous books about it, using a very elegant tapestry style loom – The Journey Loom.

While you’re at Susan’s site, take a few minutes to restore and renew yourself by watching Thich Nhat Hann’s video on mindfulness.

Lovley! Just lovely!

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