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Ink Meets Craft

Lauren

Check out this photo gallery of dolls turned inked and embroidered ladies, where the artist finds

cloth bodied baby dolls at thrift shops and send them to tattoo artists who then draw original tattoos directly on the dolls. They send the dolls back to me and I hand embroider the images on the cloth bodies. Twelve of sixteen dolls have been completed to date. The dolls, like their artists, are of different races, religious and sexual orientations, and cultural backgrounds. Each collaborating artist is asked to consider her response to tattooing the doll along with my feedback and response to embroidering the doll. From there she is encouraged to name and then write a short statement or story about her doll.

I kick myself for not thinking of this first.

4 thoughts on Ink Meets Craft

  1. very cute! i kinda want to make one.
    the artist statement by kim reed really kinda ruined the project for me though. i guess i’m just too uptight but really. do we have to call a doll of color “exotic”?

    I wanted to make something beautiful and colorful, i.e. a flower garden, for an exotic, dark skinned woman who can not always achieve this with tattoos. In combining tattoo and embroidery this is possible. Through my design and the thread, the colors will stand out on the caramel skin.

    regardless it’s a cute project and inspiring my inner craftie!

  2. My daughter, who is a nurse, says she is going to have DNR (do not resusitate) tattooed on her chest so there is no doubt about her wishes if the worst were to happen. Now there is a new business for you!!!!

  4. Interesting idea, and the “ink” is beautiful! Especially cool that most (all? I didn’t have time to look at every statement yet) of the tattoo artists are women, since it’s still a fairly male-dominated field AFAIK.

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