Amazing Patchwork Doll with Carved Wooden Head pine box it feels like bringing a

it feels like bringing a little piece of the ocean or sky inside

earthy palette

made with real slate that retains a sense of many many years of school lessons performed across its surface--and I believe this is an especially old one (19th c I think)

There is a split in the wood at the hip of one leg

Base measures 7" x 5 1/2"

Amazing Patchwork Doll with Carved Wooden Head pine box it feels like bringing aThis doll completely breaks my heart I find her so beautiful, her body sewn together in a fantastic, layered and tactile patchwork of odds and ends, with the wild woven passage over her chest being my favorite, though the sweetly hand embroidered cloth of her arms and lower body is pretty wonderful too. And then this very sensitively carved wooden head, which to my eye gives her a look of wisdom and self possession, framed by green and black checkered