Clay, terracotta, wood, shellac, dokra, jute, cloth — know about the various types of dolls in Bengal on World Doll Day Dolls made with jute, shellac and terracotta. If you are a millennial and have ...

It’s kolu time once more — time for festive tiers of dolls and tableaux, exuberantly coloured gods and goddesses, and marapachibommais dressed to the hilt! Dolls from Kondapalli, Channapatna and ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Miami – When Magda Watts is making her “little people,” her ankles swell, her bones stiffen. Still, she continues working, transfixed, for hours. From ...

In a world obsessed with designer toys and collectables like Labubu dolls, it's easy to forget how powerful a simple handmade doll can be. I grew up surrounded by them. Long before I’d heard the term ...

GUEST: This doll belonged to my grandmother, but we really don't know how she came to have it. APPRAISER: This looks to me like an early American… oil-painted cloth doll.

With the festival season around the corner, 63-year-old T. N. Shankar, a clay doll maker from Kancheepuram, dusts his clay and papier-mâché dolls every day, hoping that a customer will buy them. But ...