Doll brand Lalaloopsy is being expanded with characters featuring hair made from knitting yarn. The four Loopy Hair dolls (rsp: £34.99), which come with a hair brush, are the latest additions to the ...

The exhibit features many different Raggedy Ann and Andy rag dolls — some of which are handmade as well as those which have been commercially produced. By Beth Nance, Spencer Doll & Toy Museum It’s ...

Aniqua Wilkerson and Lion Brand Yarn Company created Skein Tones, a palette of 12 acrylic yarns in neutral shades of browns, creams and taupes, in hopes of making the fiber arts more inclusive As a ...

In 2013, Aniqua Wilkerson quit her job as a teacher in search of a more creative occupation. She found her niche as a crochet doll artist, creating dolls of color for her brand, My Kinda Thing. But ...

This holiday season, Black girls with kinky hair can finally unwrap a doll that looks like them. Mushiya Tshikuka, host of WEtv reality show Cutting It In the ATL, has created a doll adorned in coily ...

Yelitsa Jean-Charles spent her childhood hoping to find a Black doll that looked like her but was never able to find one while browsing the toy aisles. Jean-Charles, a first-generation Haitian ...

Addy Walker wasn’t my first Black doll, but she was my last. First, there were my brown Cabbage Patch dolls with black yarn hair, pinched faces and plush bodies that smelled like baby powder. Then ...