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Lady Hollyhock and Her Friends: A Book of Nature Dolls and Others

Chapter 3: Illustrations
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About This Book

This book presents a collection of craft projects, short sketches, and songs guiding children and caregivers to make dolls, figures, and toy animals from flowers, fruits, seeds, nuts, corn husks, clay, paper, and common household odds and ends. Clear instructions, patterns, jingles, and plentiful illustrations accompany step-by-step plans and brief vignettes that suggest play scenarios. Emphasizing imagination, thrift, and hands-on skill-building, the selections encourage observational acquaintance with plants and seasons while promoting creativity, resourcefulness, and simple domestic arts suitable for young makers.

Illustrations

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1.— Hollyhock Place 4
2.— Lady Hollyhock and Her Daughter 20
3.— Undressed Figures of Lady Hollyhock and Her Daughter.—(Corner piece) 21
4.— Lady Cucumber and Her Son.—(Corner piece) 24
5.— Lord Cucumber 25
6.— The Radish Baby.—(Corner piece) 27
7.— The Radish Baby 29
8.— The Corn Baby 33
9.— A Pansy Blossom.—(Corner piece) 36
10.— Pansy Ladies.—(Bottle bodies) 37
11.— Pansy Ladies.—(Paper bodies) 38
12.— Poppy Maids 41
13.— Burdocks in Fence Corner 43
14.— The Bur Eskimo 45
15.— Acorn Pig.—(Corner piece) 46
16.— Acorn Pigs in Pen 46
17.— Lemon Pigs 47
18.— A Clothes-Pin.—(Corner piece) 49
19.— The Clothes-Pin Tribe 51
20.— John and Priscilla Alden 53
21.— An Irish (Potato) Woman 55
22.— An Irish Pig 57
23.— A Clay Savage 59
24.— A Corn Husk 61
25.— Cornelia Shucks 63
26.— The Corn Cob Baby 65
27.— Apple Jack 67
28.— The Peanut Man 71
29.— The Peanut Chinese Woman 73
30.— Acorn Tops.—(Tailpiece) 77
31.— An Acorn Man 75
32.— An Acorn Woman 79
33.— The Haws 81
34.— A Long-Necked Gourd Man.—(Corner piece) 82
35.— The Weeping Gourd Man 83
36.— The Laughing Gourd Man 85
37.— The Gourd Man 87
38.— The Mender 89
39.— A Hickory-Nut Nun 91
40.— A Hickory-Nut Nurse 93
41.— Pelicans Standing on Kelp Beds at Sea.—(Tailpiece) 96
42.— The Kelp Maid 97
43.— Morning-Glory Ladies 100
44.— The Rainbow.—(Tailpiece) 101
45.— A Jack O’Lantern 103
46.— Rastus Prune 107
47.— Dinah Prune 109
48.— A Clay Pipe Baby 110
49.— Clay Pipe.—(Corner piece) 111
50.— A Clay Pipe Clown 113
51.— A Clay Pipe Old Lady 115
52.— A Clay Pipe Maiden 117
53.— Pattern for Paper Doll’s Dress and Hat 120
54.— A Paper Doll 121
55.— A Handkerchief Doll 123
56.— A Pill-Box Doll 125
57.— The Straw Indian 127
58.— The Dried Peach Indian 129
59.— The Proud Snows 131
60.— The Tender Snows 133
61.— A Pie-Crust Mule 135
62.— The Doughnut Man 137
63.— The Gingerbread Maid 139
64.— A Cooky Moon 141
65.— The Yarn Child 143
66.— A Rag Couple 145
67.— A Rag.—(Corner piece) 146
68.— A Rag Baby 147
69.— A Tissue-Paper Lady 149
70.— Humpty-Dumpty 152
71.— Peanut Cinderella.—(Corner piece) 153
72.— Cinderella in Her Coach 154