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Company Address:
Mendip Lodge, 8 Bathwick Hill
Bath
Bath and North East Somerset
BA2 6EW
England |
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Contact Data:
Contact Person: Jill Bennett
Email:
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Phone: 01225 420 828
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Jill Bennett started making dolls in the late 1970's and found they were an ideal vehicle for her three great interests - story telling, the theatre and social history.
She tries to make each doll a person, with individual personality and clothes to match, whether they are aristocrat, servant or street urchin. Jill Bennett makes small dolls. Most of them are strictly 1 inch to the foot (1/12th scale is the international scale for dolls houses). But from time to time she makes slightly larger ones up to 9 inches high.
The miniature dolls have porcelain heads and pewter bodies strung through with twisted steel wire at the joints. This gives them considerable flexibility to stand or sit or adopt other poses. (They will stand without support.)
The larger dolls have porcelain heads, hands and feet. Their bodies are padded and wired to give some flexibility.
Jill Bennett has been drawing and painting all her life. As a child she wanted to be a childrens book illustrator and indeed she worked as one for many years. Among the authors she has illustrated are Roald Dahl, Dorothy Edwards, Dick King-Smith and Helen Cresswell.
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Jill Bennett
