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The familiar granny square is a special form of square motif. Although there are many variations on the granny square, the traditional one is a double-crocheted square made with a series of chains and double-crocheted blocks—a kind of filet crochet in the round. [6] Any granny square begins with a small loop of chain stitches. Basic granny ...
The "Best of the West" was the generic series name used by toy manufacturer, Louis Marx and Company, from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s to market a line of articulated 12-inch action figures featuring a western play theme.
The word poppet is an older spelling of puppet, from Middle English popet, meaning a small child or a doll.In British English it continues to hold this meaning. Poppet is also a chiefly British term of endearment or diminutive referring to a young child, [5] much like the words "dear" or "sweetie."
Raggedy Ann is a character created by American writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) that appeared in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. Raggedy Ann is a rag doll with red yarn for hair and a triangle nose.
Matryoshka dolls may have been inspired by a nesting doll imported from Japan. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] The Children's Education workshop where Zvyozdochkin was a lathe operator received a five piece, cylinder-shaped nesting doll featuring Fukuruma ( Fukurokuju ) in the late 1890s, [ 8 ] which is now part of the collection at the Sergiev Posad Museum of ...
Typical Martenitsa. A Martenitsa (Bulgarian: мартеница, pronounced [ˈmartɛnit͡sa]; Macedonian: мартинка, romanized: martinka; Greek: μάρτης, romanized: mártis; Romanian: mărțișor [mər.t͡siˈʃor] ⓘ; Albanian: verore) is a small piece of adornment, made of white and red yarn and usually in the form of two dolls, a white male and a red female.
The granny knot is a binding knot, used to secure a rope or line around an object. It is considered inferior to the reef knot (square knot), which it superficially resembles. Neither of these knots should be used as a bend knot for attaching two ropes together. The granny knot is also called the false, lubber's, calf, and booby knot.
Russian Doll is an American comedy-drama television series, created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland, and Amy Poehler, that premiered on Netflix on February 1, 2019. The series follows Nadia Vulvokov (Lyonne), a game developer who repeatedly dies and relives the same night in an ongoing time loop and tries to solve it, leading to her finding Alan Zaveri (Charlie Barnett) in the same situation.