LEFT BEHIND | Dolls recovered from forgotten fairytales
Some things are lost. Others are deliberately hidden.
RECOVERED OBJECT NO. 012
Hester is a one-of-a-kind, handmade textile art doll from my Left Behind collection, a series of peculiar creatures that might once have belonged to children from fairytales you have never heard.
Made from fabric, individually hand-painted and dressed in tattered scraps of cloth, Hester a very enchanting badger. She has painted bones and weighted hands and feet. Her body bears curious markings and evidence of repairs, some of which may not have been entirely conventional.
Each doll has its own imagined history, recorded on an accompanying archive card.
EXTRACT FROM THE ARCHIVE
NAME: Hester
CREATURE: Badger
BELONGED TO: Millicent Crowe
MISSING SINCE: 1909
RECOVERED: 1934 beneath the stairs of the farmhouse by the forest
NOTES: Millicent’s grandmother locked Hester away every night. Following her death Hester would still be found in the cupboard every morning.
ALTERATIONS: Enchantment on left limb.
THE OBJECT
Hester is entirely handmade and individually painted, with carefully chosen fabrics, distressed details and hand-finished embellishments. She is also scented with ‘Ancestors’ from The Haunts Curiosity Shoppe.
She arrives in his own presentation box, nestled in black tissue paper, accompanied by a numbered identification tag and handwritten archive card detailing her mysterious past.
An original, one-of-a-kind piece of textile art. No two dolls in the collection are alike.
Box dimensions: 30cm x 8cm x 8cm
Please note: This is a collectible artwork intended for adult display only, not a toy. It contains small and delicate components and is unsuitable for children.
A note on photography: All artworks are original, physical pieces, designed, created and hand-painted by me. Some product photographs have been digitally enhanced using AI to adjust lighting, atmosphere and backgrounds. The artworks themselves are entirely handmade and have not been AI-generated.
LEFT BEHIND | Dolls recovered from forgotten fairytales
Some things are lost. Others are deliberately hidden.
RECOVERED OBJECT NO. 012
Hester is a one-of-a-kind, handmade textile art doll from my Left Behind collection, a series of peculiar creatures that might once have belonged to children from fairytales you have never heard.
Made from fabric, individually hand-painted and dressed in tattered scraps of cloth, Hester a very enchanting badger. She has painted bones and weighted hands and feet. Her body bears curious markings and evidence of repairs, some of which may not have been entirely conventional.
Each doll has its own imagined history, recorded on an accompanying archive card.
EXTRACT FROM THE ARCHIVE
NAME: Hester
CREATURE: Badger
BELONGED TO: Millicent Crowe
MISSING SINCE: 1909
RECOVERED: 1934 beneath the stairs of the farmhouse by the forest
NOTES: Millicent’s grandmother locked Hester away every night. Following her death Hester would still be found in the cupboard every morning.
ALTERATIONS: Enchantment on left limb.
THE OBJECT
Hester is entirely handmade and individually painted, with carefully chosen fabrics, distressed details and hand-finished embellishments. She is also scented with ‘Ancestors’ from The Haunts Curiosity Shoppe.
She arrives in his own presentation box, nestled in black tissue paper, accompanied by a numbered identification tag and handwritten archive card detailing her mysterious past.
An original, one-of-a-kind piece of textile art. No two dolls in the collection are alike.
Box dimensions: 30cm x 8cm x 8cm
Please note: This is a collectible artwork intended for adult display only, not a toy. It contains small and delicate components and is unsuitable for children.
A note on photography: All artworks are original, physical pieces, designed, created and hand-painted by me. Some product photographs have been digitally enhanced using AI to adjust lighting, atmosphere and backgrounds. The artworks themselves are entirely handmade and have not been AI-generated.
