RAG DOLLS DDOLLS

I was inspired to create rag dolls by the girls (first year students in college) who came to study in Bucharest and lived in dormitories (student complex). Coming from Transylvania, almost lost in the city, having to share the room with three other girls, never met before, my new colleague Mariana, was this smart, ambitious, hard-working student who achieved the perfect commands of the English language in 11 months. Homesick and frustrated with her new life, Mariana became depressive. To put a smile on her face and to show her my true admiration for her efforts, I stuffed a wool sock with cotton balls, I sewn two buttons for eyes and another for nose and made a cute cotton tail bunny for their room. All four girls fell in love with my rag doll; they realized my message and became very good roommates. This is how I started.

Charley – my second rag bunny(left).

Made in the winter of 1975 – age 21.

No pattern.

Max was born in 1984 on paper as a hand puppet. Only the hair, nose and mouth changed with the time. In the picture at the right he is now almost 20 years old.