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- In 1976, Thomas met Xavier Roberts at one of these craft fairs. He asked her to supply him with dolls to sell in Georgia, where he lived and worked.
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Apr 21, 2015 · Roberts, who at one time bought Doll Babies from Thomas for his gift shop, marketed his Cabbage Patch Kids with a similar angle. You didn't simply buy them; you adopted them as your own. They...
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In 1976, Xavier Roberts met Martha Nelson Thomas at a craft fair. He asked her to supply him with dolls to sell in Georgia, where he lived and worked. [ 4 ] Thomas briefly let him sell her Doll Babies, but stopped.
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In 1981, Xavier Roberts and a few friends were making “Little People” dolls, with cloth and needlepoint faces and bodies and yarn hair. In the very early days, supply was constrained. Each doll was handmade by Xavier Roberts in his workshop in Cleveland, Georgia. Each was hand-sewn and unique, the coloring and facial expressions the work of an arti...
In the early 1970s, a soft-sculpture artist named Martha Nelson Thomaswas creating unique “doll babies” with hand-painted eyes and pin-tucked features, fingers, and toes. She gave them away to family and friends and sold them at craft markets near her home in Kentucky. Sometime before 1980, Martha Nelson Thomas crossed paths with Xavier Roberts, hi...
One-of-a-kind, hand-stitched soft sculpture Little People are still available from Cleveland, Georgia—for ten times the priceof a mass-produced doll by Mattel. Had the “soft sculptures” stayed just that—artwork produced painstakingly by hand and selling for hundreds of dollars—they could never have been the national phenomenon they were. Even with ...
Hand-crafted gifts, and folk-art specifically, have a precious place in our aesthetic tradition. Martha Nelson Thomas isn’t alone in lamenting the mass market production and appeal of a one-handmade treasure. But for those of us whose childhood nostalgia has a Cabbage Patch face, that would have been an enormous loss. Only a few hundred residents a...
In 1976, Xavier Roberts met Martha Nelson Thomas at a craft fair. He asked her to supply him with dolls to sell in Georgia, where he lived and worked. Thomas briefly let him sell her Doll Babies, but stopped. Thomas sued Roberts and won an undisclosed amount after the case was settled out of court.
Nov 10, 2023 · Influenced by Martha Nelson Thomas’ Doll Babies, art student Xavier Roberts combined his interest in needle molding with the quilting skills he learned from his mother to craft soft sculptures he called Little People.
Apr 24, 2015 · According to Nelson Thomas’s husband, Tucker Thomas, Roberts first came across the doll babies at a craft fair. “[He] saw Martha’s dolls and purchased one of them,” Thomas told Vice.
Nov 20, 2023 · In 1976, Roberts met Thomas at a crafts fair and, for a time, offered to stock Doll Babies at his store; after she soured on the idea, Roberts wrote to her, “We will definitely [be] carrying...
