| Krokeshi - Black Hair |
Local artist Emi Motokawa approached me one day with the idea of making soft kokeshi dolls. She floated the idea as a possible submission to the upcoming Kokeshi collaboration between JANM and LATDA Museum. I told her it sounded interesting, but was not prepared to have her come back the next day having invented her hand-crocheted kokeshi (Krokeshi - get it?)
These are more art than toy with their contemporary colors and textures. Each doll has a tiny bell inside, shoe button eyes, and contains a weight at the bottom to make it stand on its own, which make them unsuitable as toys for young children who still put small objects in their mouths. They would make a fine companion for a more mature child of ten. 10-1/2"H. Acrylic yarn.
The black-haired Krokeshi come in three color combinations - two of which look suspiciously like the school colors of two local universities: Pink/Grey, Baby Blue/Gold, Cardinal/Gold.
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