The Root

Making Paper

For most of its 200-year history, the art of paper-doll making has not been flattering to black folks. Prior to the mid-1950s, white illustrators and publishers generally drew the rare black paper ...
WRAL

MomsRising, Partnership for Children plan paper doll making party

NC MomsRising and Durham's Partnership for Children are throwing a pizza and paper doll party for early learning on Thursday at White Rock Baptist Church in Durham. NC MomsRising and Durham's ...
Wicked Local

Cutting paper dolls from Sears catalogs

I remember making paper dolls from Sears catalogs. When a new Sears catalog arrived at our home, the old one was set aside, available for play. My sister and I would pour through it, looking for just ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Paper, water, flour and salt: Artist teaches how to make traditional Mexican dolls

LEARNED HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENT KIND OF DOLL. THIS ARE TRADITIONAL PAPER MACHE DOLLS FROM MEXICO DOLLS ARE A SYMBOL OF PERFECTION. THESE LUPITA’S ARE ANYTHING BUT. I REALLY FOUND SO MUCH BEAUTY IN ...
Newsweek

Zelda Fitzgerald’s Wish to Publish Paper Dolls Book Fulfilled Decades Later

Zelda Fitzgerald once gauged a publisher's interest in creating a collection filled with the striking paper dolls she made for her daughter, but the book she imagined never materialized. More than 70 ...
NPR

At 81, Artist Still Playing With Paper Dolls

For more than 30 years, Tom Tierney has been the pen behind some of the country's most popular paper doll books. The books feature celebrities like Joan Crawford, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, and ...