What Dolls are Made of

If you’re a mother you will understand quite well how your young little miss could be so fascinated with her doll. Remember how when you were a little girl your dolls held such a promise for you? Baby dolls were so soft and cuddly you would pretend to be their mother; in fact you were the best mother in the world. Your Barbie was your alter ego, the career woman side of what you wanted to be aside from being a caring mom. Dolls held magic then and even up to now, when technology has made them more interactive, more fun and more expensive of course.

Have you ever wondered how these dolls originated before they evolved into the likes of Barbie and Bratz? They could be traced as far back as in ancient Egypt when papyrus and linen cloth was still the in thing. Too bad they don’t have any samples left to satisfy our imagination whether they were modeled after the Pharaohs or after the likes of Queen Nefertiti or Cleopatra.

Later on in Europe and during the Victorian era, little girls were so enthralled with dolls, manufacturers found different ways to improve them. Corn husks, carved woods, linen and unbleached cotton stuffed with sawdust or bran; these were what dolls were made of then. Dolls further evolved during that era into the likes of china dolls. Their porcelain faces all highlighted with paint turned more girls and women alike captivated with these charmingly creative craft.     

Then there were the rag dolls and papier-mâché dolls until Germany and France came up with a whole set of dolls that make up an entire family, to take residence in realistically made dollhouses. Some doll collectors take pride in showing off such collections wherein the whole doll family is attended to by a doll butler and a doll nursemaid.    

One of the well-known collectors of these dolls is the Lee-Fendall House, a beautifully restored Victorian house museum in Alexandria, Virginia. It owns a collection of antique dolls that are considered as remarkable survivors of America’s colorful colonial history dating back from the Victorian era.

The way technology has made most of our gadgets and equipments highly modernized, dolls will no doubt later on develop as virtual playmates the way we have seen them in the movies. This gets to be more interesting yet scary, don’t you think?

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