Welsh Doll Sold
A rare wooden doll in traditional Welsh costume holding a baby in the Welsh fashion
Circa 1850
14½” high
Web-reference: One tradition of shawl wearing which is truly Welsh is the practice of carryingbabies in a shawl. Illustrations showing this have survived from the late eighteenth century when Welsh women wore a simple length of clothwrapped around their body. When shawls became popular, they were adapted to the same use, and some women even today still keep up the tradition
www.museumwales.ac.uk/273/
Almost every female member of the Royal family since Princess (later Queen) Victoria’s visit in 1832 was given a doll dressed in Welsh costume when they visited Wales
A very similar example is held in the doll collection at St Fagans National History Museum, Cardiff
www.museumwales.ac.uk/rhagor/article/doll_making/
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