Casgliadau Arlein

Doll made from the sole of a clog from Garstang, Lancashire, 1910

Circular wooden face (heel of clog); face depicted by nails with 2 different sized heads (5 small ones used to delineate the nose, 4 small ones used for mouth and 2 slightly larger ones for the eyes). Eyebrows drawn on in pencil. Wearing a padded brown velvet bonnet (gathered at centre back) with red lining tied in a ribbon bow under the chin, a printed cotton apron (brown and pink on cream ground), a dress of printed cotton: blue and white garlands on a background of red and brown stripes. She also wears a cloak of the same material, lined with red fabric and the rest with a coarsely woven off-white cotton tabby fabric. Arms are made from strips of leather. Petticoat of thick wool (?) with cream and red stripes (each stripe edged in orange), on a black ground. Below this is a second petticoat of cream wool, as well as a third cream cotton petticoat.

Previous patch repairs on cotton dress (red synthetic support patches), and on cream wool petticoat (white silk crepeline patches). Previous repair also down centre front of apron.