Name/TitleKnitting pattern: Dolls' Wear
About this objectWeldon Series No. 400: Dolls' Wear in Knitting and Crochet - Patterns for Dolls' Long Clothes Set, including a "Ski-Girl" outfit; three baby doll sets; a golliwog and his clothes; jumper-suit, vest and knickers; day-time and night-time outfits; a soft toy called "Sally"; a teddy bear's outfit; a complete set for a 25-inch doll; and a "Bathing Belle" knitted swimming costume and cap.
The magazine features several advertisements, e.g. knitting pins, an Encyclopaedia of Needlework, Dr J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne and Mother and Home: the Ideal Family Magazine. A stamped brown paper pattern packet is also present.
Fully digitised (20 pages)
MakerWeldons Ltd
Maker RolePublisher
Date Made1937
Period1930s
Place MadeEngland, London
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 300 x W: 225 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsKnitting - dolls & toys
Subject and Association KeywordsCrafts & hobbies
Subject and Association KeywordsCrochet
Subject and Association Keywords(anti) racism
Subject and Association KeywordsStereotyping
Subject and Association DescriptionThis booklet contains a pattern for a "golliwog" design, a racist caricature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog:
The golliwog, golliwogg or golly is a doll-like character – created by white cartoonist and author Florence Kate Upton – that appeared in children's books in the late 19th century, usually depicted as a type of rag doll. It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers, as a children's toy called the "golliwog", a portmanteau of golly and polliwog, and had great popularity in the UK and Australia into the 1970s.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePattern
Object numberGWL-2016-95-121
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved