REPAIR OF WOOL HAIR more -->
Almost every doll in the collection received some insect damage to their wool hair. This varied from minor to completely missing heads of wool hair. I could not find any research techniques to follow for the hair repairs therefore I had to fall back on my experience as a doll maker.
For the six male dolls I used a looping technique, I felt it best duplicated the hair that was left on the dolls originally.
For the female dolls there were a two with very little damage, so I tried to duplicate the method that was originally used on the remaining 9 female dolls. In this method I stitched loops of hair to the hairline on the front and sides of the head and then gathered and secured it to the back at the neck before braiding it.
I found a good match to the wool hair in texture was “Cowichin Sweater “ type yarn, but unfortunately I could only get black. For the other colours of hair I had to use regular type wool yarn, which was too tightly spun and even so I could not match the reddish brown colour exactly. Although I could not get an exact match, I felt it was close enough to make the repair effective.