This little doll has arrived to get her body issues addressed.
Her arms and legs keep falling off.
There is sticky stuff embedded in the cloth around the top of each limb.
Off with her head. Out with her stuffing.
And here is the source of the problem.
The limbs were attached to the cloth body by elastic bands that have long since lost their elasticity. Elastic deteriorates by getting stiff and brittle or melting into a gooey mess. Unfortunately for me this elastic went the gooey route and now I have to get the sticky mess out of the cloth body.
Once totally unstuffed and the limbs are extracted from the goo, the cloth body can be soaked in a variety of cleaning solutions. It takes days and several changes of soaking solutions but the goo is gone and the body seems to be cleaning up nicely.
Now she has a cleaned body and her limbs are attached with cotton cording. No more rotting elastic!
Ready to go home......
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