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The Hatter by Kelly

The Hatter, I always found his character in the books fascinating, but also a little bit frightening... wonderfully so! And so I make Hatters a lot, this time a button eye version to add to the madness!! Of course he is every bit as charming and whimsical as ever, inspired by a fusion of Tenniel's illustrations, but with the wild red hair of Burton's film. He is ready to join the tea party!!!

Hatter is from a collection of cloth and clay dolls, a cloth jointed body with clay face. Their style is more primitive, I wanted to create a creepy cute doll collection using a shops lot of upcycled and recycled fabrics and trims, wools and embellishments. I have a vast collection of vintage fabrics and these dolls are perfect for using those that I have collected over decades.

He has an outfit of olive green frock coat and matching top hat, complementary colours are purple and red, and of course he has his hat ticket tucked in the hat band. His trousers are hand painted checker-board lemon yellow and sky blue; his neckerchief is hand painted lemon yellow and red polka dots... an homage to Tenniel. He has black shoes and palest green stockings, from his belt he has a teacup I sculpted so he always has one ready for when there is a fresh pot.