Reproduction Bru Jne Dolls from Rosewood Cottage
Please scroll all the way down the page for lots more pictures and information. Prices vary. Dolls may be ordered dressed or undressed. I am now selling completed heads with beautiful German paperweight glass eyes. I will be adding pictures of those or you can text me at 3062407716 for pictures.
Below: Bru 13 SOLD This 28" doll has a beautiful Wendy Feidt pale blond mohair wig, German deep blue paperweight eyes and a composition body. She is wearing an entirely handmade 12 piece outfit: antique reproduction ivory leather boots made in the Ukraine, hand crocheted socks, batiste bloomers with French lace, camisole with ribbon flower and lace trim, batiste petticoat with lace, silk taffeta corset with hand embroidery, silk taffeta bustle with lace, silk taffeta skirt, taffeta jacket with plastron and lace, silk taffeta wired hat with ribbon roses, lace and maribou, hand dyed lace collar with roses pin, bead earrings, hand crocheted fingerless gloves and silk taffeta purse with ribbon roses. A doll similar to this in your choice of colours may be ordered. Contact me.
This Bru is another of my favourites. She is not for sale.Posing in her pink hand embroidered corset.
She has blue paperweight eyes from Germany and a beautiful Wendy Feidt mohair wig.
On the left below is antique Bru 8 from the Jim Fernando collection, "most photographed Bru" in Sept., 2003 "Antique Doll Collector" magazine. My reproduction of this outfit on Bru 13 shown in top pictures.
Reproduction Bru 13 dressed in reproduction of an antique dress and cape.shown below.
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Outfit is pure silk taffeta with antique lace.
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Above pictures from 2003 "Antique Doll Collector" magazine.
Below, see pictures of all the clothing I made for my JIm Fernando reproduction.
Camisole and Bustle.
Pleated Skirt
Inside of cape.
Pleated petticoat.
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Corset
Silk dress with antique lace matching bonnet.
Outside of Cape
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The Bru 13 pictured below is my 400th large doll and my absolute favourite of all the dolls I have made.
My beautiful reproduction Bru 13 and Bru 11 dolls can be custom ordered and dressed. Prices will vary depending on what you want. Please contact me at rosewoodcottageporcelaindolls@sasktel.net
My two Bru dolls shown above are wearing beautiful mohair wigs by Wendy Feidt.
Little girls in the 1880's when these beautiful Bru Jne dolls were made, often wore very complicated clothing just like their mothers.
Little girls in the 1880's when these beautiful Bru Jne dolls were made, often wore very complicated clothing just like their mothers.
A complete set of clothing for a Bru Jne doll would include shoes and socks, bloomers, a camisole, a corset, a bustle, a petticoat, and either a skirt and jacket with plastron, or else a dress, and a hat. My dolls also have matching purses and one had fingerless gloves as seen on the doll in blue below. These dolls were first used by clothing companies to display and advertise clothing for rich little girls. Dolls from Rosewood Cottage boast all the fancy underwear!
Ensemble except for shoes, socks and hat and purse.
Bru Jne 13 This beautiful doll is SOLD.
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Finished dress from the back.
Antique Reproduction of Bru 13
I used the picture of the Bru 13 on Page 70 of Ursula Brechts book "Precious Dolls"for the doll below. Her painting is slightly different from most Brus with more bottom lashes. She is 27" tall with a human hair wig and big grey/blue paperweight eyes.
Bru 13 in navy silk dupioni, big blue paperweight eyes, and a human hair strawberry blond wig.
The exact same doll as shown above but with a curly Wendy Feidt mohair wig and wearing her camisole shown in detail below.
This picture shows more of the jacket and plastron. The plastron has hand sewn beads. The jacket has lots of hand embroidery. The hat has hand sewn ribbon roses. The jacket took me many many hours to make.
Here is the little silk dupioni jacket she is wearing over a pleated skirt. Notice the pleating of the silk in the front. Almost all of the lace is sewn on by hand.
This is her camisole which I hated to cover up!! It is lace over English netting and is almost completely hand sewn. It is embellished with hand made silk flowers.
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This is the back of the camisole.
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The Bru above is wearing a human hair strawberry blond wig.
Antique Reproduction Bru Dolls
My favourite dolls of all are antique Brus. It is very rewarding to make these dolls and this one is not for sale because she was my first completed Bru 13 and because she is the doll I got my Master of Dollmaking certificate with with a mark of 91. It took me hours to research everything about how she should be dressed and painted. I had to pour many heads before I got one that I could fit the beautiful paperweight eyes in perfectly and nothing else went wrong! It took me many hours to make the Bru's mohair wig, lace underclothing, hand crocheted socks, leather shoes, and hat and dress with all their ribbon trim and handmade flowers. She is dressed in silk dupioni and antique lace. To be authentic, only natural fibres may be used. French seams must be used in all underthings and dresses. When the dress was done, it looked almost as lovely inside as out!
She has a hand made mohair wig made by myself. Dolls in the 1800's had either mohair or real hair wigs.... no acrylics in those days!!
She has a hand made mohair wig made by myself. Dolls in the 1800's had either mohair or real hair wigs.... no acrylics in those days!!
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Here is a picture of Bru 13 with my competition Hilda toddler, a famous German baby doll. All of the embroidery work on Hilda's hat and dress is done by hand. For a Baby Hilda, please go back to the index and scroll to Reproduction Hilda Baby.
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Bru 11 above is SOLD. She is dressed in ice pink silk dupioni with lots of laces. Her whole outfit has a "Rose" theme. In the picture above, she is wearing a beautiful mohair Wendy Feidt wig. In the picture below, she is wearing a commercial acrylic wig.
Little girls, especially rich little girls in France in the late 1800's were dressed in the same type of finery as their mothers. They dressed in velvets, silks and satins, ribbons and laces, all done with fine French seams and meticulous detail.
So dressing a French doll takes many hours. The particular style pictures here was very popular in the late 1880's with the little pleated skirt and jacket with a plastron. This plastron is pleated and then lace is added and I sewed tiny pink beads in the petals of each flower. Then the plastron is attached to the jacket and a large bow is placed at the back. Hand made silk roses are added to the front of the plastron, the hat and the sleeves of the jacket. Her hat is silk dupioni shirred onto wire and her socks are hand crocheted. This doll has a composition poseable body. Bodies in the 1800's were made of composition, wood, or leather and porcelain.
I have already mentioned here the hours it takes to paint a French doll or any antique doll, to get her, "just right". Each brush stroke is practised until it matches the original antique doll. It is no accident that her eyebrows don't "match". If they did, she would not look at all like an authentic Bru.
So dressing a French doll takes many hours. The particular style pictures here was very popular in the late 1880's with the little pleated skirt and jacket with a plastron. This plastron is pleated and then lace is added and I sewed tiny pink beads in the petals of each flower. Then the plastron is attached to the jacket and a large bow is placed at the back. Hand made silk roses are added to the front of the plastron, the hat and the sleeves of the jacket. Her hat is silk dupioni shirred onto wire and her socks are hand crocheted. This doll has a composition poseable body. Bodies in the 1800's were made of composition, wood, or leather and porcelain.
I have already mentioned here the hours it takes to paint a French doll or any antique doll, to get her, "just right". Each brush stroke is practised until it matches the original antique doll. It is no accident that her eyebrows don't "match". If they did, she would not look at all like an authentic Bru.