Colorfully Painted Folk Art Carved Wooden Figure with Cloth Covered Wire Arms 2005 the figures are anonymous

the figures are anonymous

I find it completely wonder-inducing

which is wonderfully strange

I've sold a number of sets of color cubes

with the raffia coiling around the edge of the lid and woven detail at the very top

Colorfully Painted Folk Art Carved Wooden Figure with Cloth Covered Wire Arms 2005 the figures are anonymousSuch a curious one! I don't really know a thing about the origins of this carved and painted figure, but really I love it, and while I don't think it is terribly old, I do think it was made very much in the tradition of antique carved folk art dolls, which it closely follows from the form of the carved body, to the carved face and hat, to the cloth wrapped wire arms. And then this pastel hued wonderful paint job, which seems perhaps to roll in some