 A Touch of Color |
This old woman is really one of the mysterious White Ladies of local European legends. White Ladies sometimes arrived during the ghostly twilight to teach the village girls how to spin. They were fine and demanding teachers, but appeared and disappeared at whim. There is something quite unusual about the way this old woman spins such colorful woolen thread from a white fleece however, as well as the colorful tales she spins as it emerges. The colored yarns that emerge from her magic touch are like no other, with a sheen of a rainbow. Who will wear the garment made of her enchanted threads? And what would it be like to wear them? This spinner ( I call her "Mrs. Whitehead" or Sophie) sits in a white-washed twig chair, being 11" high, seated. She is sculpted in polymer (Super Sculpey) and has a soft body wrapped over a posable armature, with hair of mohair. She is well dressed in natural linens and antique lace but remains barefoot. Her raw wool is being transformed into balls of yarn all the colors of the rainbow, from one (white) basket to another (of brown twigs). White wooden base is 11" x 14".  Click Here for a Close-up Portrait
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