Here’s some of what Arabella Grayson has learned about black paper dolls: Mid-1700s: Rich ladies in England and France make tiny paper dolls in their own images. 1810: Little Fanny, the first ...

For most of its 200-year history, the art of paper-doll making has not been flattering to black folks. Prior to the mid-1950s, white illustrators and publishers generally drew the rare black paper ...

I remember making paper dolls from Sears catalogs. When a new Sears catalog arrived at our home, the old one was set aside, available for play. My sister and I would pour through it, looking for just ...

Matilda Billinge argues that paper dolls are woven into the fabric of female fashion across time Last term, I was attending a zine-making workshop at The Iris Café when a page from one of the vintage ...

WASHINGTON — A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, ...

LEARNED HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENT KIND OF DOLL. THIS ARE TRADITIONAL PAPER MACHE DOLLS FROM MEXICO DOLLS ARE A SYMBOL OF PERFECTION. THESE LUPITA’S ARE ANYTHING BUT. I REALLY FOUND SO MUCH BEAUTY IN ...

For more than 30 years, Tom Tierney has been the pen behind some of the country's most popular paper doll books. The books feature celebrities like Joan Crawford, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, and ...

Sitting in a room full of ribbon, antique lace and sequins, dozens of young girls got a first-hand look at vintage wedding fashion Sunday afternoon during a doll-making workshop at the Greenwich ...