Stunning Antique Chad Valley Bambina restoration Art Doll Rainbabies Nursery No2

Description: Many of you may know me as the award winning artist behind Rainbabies Nursey, turning Vinyl dolls and kits into realistic babies. One of my hobbies has been restoring Chad Valley Bambina felt velveteen dolls and Dean's Rag book dolls. When I see an extreme poor TLC dolly usually filthy from years of grime, sometimes with old repairs to body, broken or no eyes or sparse ratty hair, I just can't help myself from wanting to bring them back to their timeless beauty. I usually try and keep their originality but some are just beyond that and need a complete make over.This beautiful 16" Chad Valley Bambina has been treated to a Rainbabies spa. Her face was quite bad as you can see in the last picture. The glass eyes had been poked in, the face drawn on with felt tip pens. She was a well loved little dolly Her sewn on mohair had been cut very badly and was very sparse and dirty not covering the full head. She really needed a Rainbabies make over.I freeze treated her in case of any moth larvae being a cloth doll, gently surface cleaned her grimy velvet and removed her sparse wig and dry cleaned it. I re-felted her head ,cleaned and re-inserted the glass eyes to give her a cute wistful look. I then delicately painted her face to give her a more realistic child look. There was not much of the original blonde mohair so after cleaning and gently pin combing through, I sewed the weft back on in a bob style that suited the 1920s 30s doll and made a cream and brown vintage felt cloche hat with pale green ribbon trim. She is wearing her original cream silk dress and cotton underwear and I made her a new Art Deco style brown and cream felt coat with matching shoes fastened with vintage buttons and a new hand knitted pale green scarf. Considering she was really so far gone I hope you will agree that she now looks the beautiful little lady that she deserves and my tribute to the Chad Valley Bambina.She is no longer a play doll she is a one of a kind artist remodelled doll for serious doll collector display only.Sent tracked and insured.

Price: 225 GBP

Location: Gillingham

End Time: 2024-10-08T08:36:36.000Z

Shipping Cost: 57.49 GBP