Wooden dolls date back centuries. The earliest were crude carved pieces of wood shaped like a human figure. But today it’s rare to find a doll made before the 1600s, when English and German draftsmen ...

We picked up our first Vitra doll in a gallery in Tokyo and have since become enamoured by these little fellows. The family of colourful, folk-art inspired wooden dolls has welcomed a new member, who ...

Shelley Thornton makes dolls, but they’re not toys for young girls. Rather, they’re internationally acclaimed works of art, small sculptures created from textiles, wood and steel. A dozen of them are ...

You might as well ask Rosalie Whyel which of her children she likes best as ask her to name a favorite doll. "I always say it's the one I'm holding," says Whyel, the owner and director of the Rosalie ...

Saltburn care home residents have painted wooden dolls for an exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of a Teesside railway line.