I need help with restoring a little cloth doll. I think she is Chinese.

[TooTicky]

Clothes are knitted? crocheted? can't tell, maybe a combination, and fixed to the body. Also a bonnet/hat and a littlecircle under her feet. About 3" tall. Do you know the type?

It's her face I need to redo but I can't find any pictures to work from as I don't know if this sort of doll has a name.

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Could you put a pic on your profile page for us to mull over?

Doll on profile

i dont think that style of doll would have a 'face' does it have markings on the area to suggest it had?

She did have a face, but it wore right away in the middle so all you could see was her stuffing. I have re-covered her head.

any idea on how old it may be?

No, I really don't know.

is her face fabrice? could you embroider markings on it IYSWIM?

sorry fabric

any idea if it is a soft sculpt?

this sort of style may work well

They are sweet but don't look familiar - I'd like to redo her as she was but can't picture her in my head.
I have re-covered her head with silk (lucky offcut!). Her stuffing is possibly raw cotton? Embroiderable, yes. Have a feeling she may originally have been painted but I wouldn't dare try as I think it would run and fuzz iyswim. Embroidery much safer.

is this more familar

Mmm...no. Not so babylike. I really appreciate your help btw

TooTicky,if you painted her features on with acrylics then they wouldn't run - to be doubly sure you could test a dot on a spare bit of fabric or the back of the head. I would guess that it was originally painted on but it is just that, a guess.

Sweet little doll!

Thanks
Still can't picture how her face should look though!

how about something like this www.chinapage.com/fu03.html ?

Closer...but not quite. More childlike. Thanks

I had something similar to this. I'm sure the face was painted/printed. Had a tiny rosebud mouth and the eyes weren't realistic, kind of like commas but with the longer bit giving that long cats-eye oriental kind of look if that makes sense (think long liquid eyeliner!)! Not sure about the nose.. a dot if anything.

I bet it's somewhere inthe house (I attached it to a keyring as a child!) but couldn't guess where I'm afraid.

I'm sure these little dolls used to be really quite common (not in a nasty way!) but they seem to be quite untraceable on the net

Mine wasn't common, she was very refined

I'm sure I had some when I was little. This is one my dad gave to dd1 - he has died since so it seems rather important to restore this one.

I had a cursory look for it (I looked in one possible box out of 100s!) to no avail. I' sure I've seen it fairly recently (as in the last couple of years which is quite recent given I've had it for over 20!)