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| Rag dolls above made using piece goods or yard goods for fund raising. |
Although printed cloth dolls are considered very old-fashioned, many are still sold by the yard in fabric stores today. The term piece goods or yard goods refers to the textile materials sold in cut pieces as per the buyer's specification. The piece goods were either cut from a fabric roll or produced with a certain length. Various textiles such as cotton, wool, silk, etc., were traded in terms of piece goods. The prices were determined as per the fabric quality but today the cuts a priced according to length.
Dolls printed on piece goods usually have both a front and back printed side. To make them, you need to cut the doll prints out and sew the right sides facing together. Then you turn the right sides inside out and stuff the body using polyester or cotton batting through a narrow opening. Then whip stitch the opening shut to finish the doll.
During the early 1900s these dolls were often stuffed with rags or sawdust. Few antique versions have lasted into the twenty-first century because they were made primarily as toys, the least expensive, manufactured versions of a doll that could be purchased in most cases.
Throughout the 20th century, big food companies often offered dolls made this way to advertise their products to families with young children. If you collected a certain number of box tops or receipts as proof of purchase, you could mail these in and the company would send a free doll through the mail. These dolls often were printed caricatures of company mascots such as: Ronald MacDonald, the Green Giant, Burger King, Mr. Peanut, the Pillsbury Dough Boy or the Campbells Soup Kids etc...
Dolls printed on piece goods usually have both a front and back printed side. To make them, you need to cut the doll prints out and sew the right sides facing together. Then you turn the right sides inside out and stuff the body using polyester or cotton batting through a narrow opening. Then whip stitch the opening shut to finish the doll.
During the early 1900s these dolls were often stuffed with rags or sawdust. Few antique versions have lasted into the twenty-first century because they were made primarily as toys, the least expensive, manufactured versions of a doll that could be purchased in most cases.
Throughout the 20th century, big food companies often offered dolls made this way to advertise their products to families with young children. If you collected a certain number of box tops or receipts as proof of purchase, you could mail these in and the company would send a free doll through the mail. These dolls often were printed caricatures of company mascots such as: Ronald MacDonald, the Green Giant, Burger King, Mr. Peanut, the Pillsbury Dough Boy or the Campbells Soup Kids etc...
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