Hina-ningyo are perhaps the most well known when it comes to the display of traditional ornamental dolls to pray for and celebrate the healthy growth and success of the household's children.

Jiwon Jung has been crafting beautiful dolls for more than two decades since she realized her life was a gift from God to serve the world. “... I realized that my hands were not mine but were given to ...

Carlson provides a straightforward introduction to creating dolls—from cloth, paper, gingerbread, spoons, corn husks, and more—and accessories. A “Doll Maker’s Toolbox” lists essential materials ...

In Yozgat, central Türkiye, 52-year-old Zehra Bağcı has been knitting handmade dolls to support children living without ...

As she travels through India, she gets a costume change in each state. On Instagram, her smiling avatar is a bestseller, and speaks up for good causes. Karuna lives for a good cause. She’s part of a ...

Punainallur Mariamman Kovil looks like any other rural southern Indian outpost. Driving past the canopied stretch of a road that is also the thoroughfare for the bus station adjoining the massive ...

Joanne Fritz will always remember the way her mother tenderly clutched a stuffed animal during her stay at a nursing home. It was a little brown and white dog, the one Fritz now keeps in her North ...