An Ashton Drake doll with a wobbly head

This is a small doll named 'Josie' from the Ashton Drake Galleries.
She has come to get her wobbly head fixed.

Her head wobbles because the elastic holding her head to her body has disintegrated.
Elastic is often the first thing that fails in a doll.

Josie's head is attached via the elastic to a shoulderplate which is sewn on to her cloth body.
For the best results, her shoulderplate needs to be removed and her wig too.

Here we have all her bits dismantled. The elastic has been removed.

To restring her head some new elastic gets threaded through the loop that was inside her head.

Then the loop goes back into her head with the ends of elastic coming out of her neck.

The elastic goes through her shoulderplate and is tied off around the wire gizmo.

And then her head gets resewn to her body.

She is ready to get dressed and go home.