Your favorite childhood doll or toy has just been found stuffed away in a box in the basement? It is cracked and dirty and your family urges you to throw it out. But it is full of memories and despite its many flaws, you just cannot discard it. Doll doctors and restoration artists can help. Many of the saddest dolls and toys can be restored. I restore dolls from my home base in Ontario. Wintertime however, finds me packing up a few projects and fleeing to Florida to work in the sunshine!
Friday, April 19, 2019
Whitey-the-bear vs. dog
There is a recurrent theme in the doll and toy repair field?
That would be patients who have arrived having suffered a mauling by the family dog!
This is Whitey.
He got seized upon by a canine and has significant facial injuries.
He is missing an eye. His remaining eye is broken. A significant amount of his fur fabric is missing. He is going to need fur grafts to repair this damage.
The best way to address extensive injuries like Whitey's is to work from the inside and so his head comes off.
Then his head starts getting dismantled..
In the left lower corner is a piece of fur that will be used for fur grafts.
Now we have Whitey's head pieces ready to put back together.
His whole left face has been replaced with the donor fur. His head gusset piece has been patched with what was left of his left face.
Pieced back together and ready to go back on his body.......
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