The Audrey Johnson collectin

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Doll enthusiast Audrey Johnson sold her collection of dolls, models and doll houses at Bonhams in London, England, in fall 2000. Her collection included early wax-overs, papier-maches, porcelains and a boxed 1960s Barbie.

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Seeing is believing

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British doll artist Linda Murray makes her dolls entirely from cloth, using a complicated process to fashion detailed heads and bodies with a hard, sealed finish. Her 'shell cloth' technique is described.

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Theatre de la Mode

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The 1946 Theatre de la Mode exhibition was historic for both the revival of the Paris fashion industry, and for the fashion doll industry. Couture leaders used dolls due to post-war materials shortages.

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