Restored Vintage Indian Nesting Dolls - FAMILY

£22.00

Description

Sitting alongside the on the Ganges one fine spring day, I caught sight of a man with piles of colour laden upon his head. On closer inspection I discovered he carried a burden of delightful wooden toys. Faded, battered and with chipping paint, he was taking them to the burning ghats to sell for scrap. Despite their ill repair, I was enamoured of their whimsy and, between my broken Hindi and his broken English, convinced him to save them from the ghats and let me give them a new life.

I searched through the assortment of odd and ends to find all four pieces of this delightful nesting doll set! Father, Mother, Sister, and wee Baby were all in sad shape - Father's face had been worn away by the ages, and poor Baby had only a few scraps of clothing left!

After researching the traditional Benares style of toy making and apprenticing under a master toymaker, I felt confident in my ability to properly breathe new life into my beloved toys.

Using powdered pigments mixed with gloss medium, I tried to reincarnate them as closely as possible to how they might have looked in their former lives. Two layers of paint and sanding down the insides so they open and close properly, and they were good as new while still preserving some of their shabby chic.

They'll also hold any manner of small trinkets; feed them with jewelry, fortune cookie slips, safety pins, buttons or all manners of tiny baubles. Fully recovered and ready to make new friends, this happy family would love to brighten up any room of your house!