The handmade dolls are given to children who are hospitalized ... Ennis decreed it needed more fiberfill and reached for one of the long- handled wooden spoons the doll makers use to compress ...

Kokeshi dolls are a mainstay of tourists shop across Japan, yet many visitors to the country may not know that these simple handmade wooden dolls are, by and large, associated with Tohoku ...

Constance Molak, a former Niagara Falls Public Library employee who died last year, used her creative skills to carve “beautiful handmade wooden dolls,” according to Tim Baxter of Oakwood ...

Kokeshi dolls are handmade wooden dolls that originated in Northern Japan. Originally created for tourists visiting the hot springs, they are made up of a body, head, and thin lines of paint ...

It was thought that giving a girl a doll would help her to become a good mother. Early dolls were made of corn husks or cloth ...

The earliest were crude carved pieces of wood shaped like a human figure. But today it’s rare to find a doll made before the 1600s, when English and German draftsmen skillfully carved wooden ...

She told CNN it took her seven hours to crochet the 9-inch doll that is made to sit, and a tiny wooden bench is included. King, from Corpus Christi, Texas, patterned it off a previous doll she ...