Dollshouse Embroidery Kits
Heide's House
Heide Kleinwaechter lives in Germany. She visited our stand at a show and promised some photos - this is what she told us about them:
A friend of my father's handcrafted furniture for a kitchen, a diningroom and a bedroom 1949. But there never existed a dollshouse until my son aged 8 wished to have a dollshouse for his Playmobil-family.
We bought a readymade "Lundby" and put the old furniture and a lot of new things in it. After my son finished playing I took over the little house.
Shopping in England, USA and the Continent made it necessary to enlarge the house, but after & few years it was totally overfilled. So in 1996 my husband started his first year as a retired with building a large house and 10 months later the dollshouse-family moved. Since that time I have been keeping on collecting miniatures and sewing and stitching and "sculping".
CARPETS IN THE ROOMS:
The Bokhara, ("Rebecca"), is in the Hall (ground floor) and can hardly be seen.
The Chinese ("Patricia") is in the smoke-room, where the Landlord and his brother in law are playing cards (each of them with one Joker.'). There are some things in the room to symbolize the civilized standard of the dollshouse family: Staffordshire dogs, antique glassware and china and a large Chinese carpet. All in all a room of leisure for nice hours by the fireside.
The Circular Scene ("Victoria") is used as a wallhanging in the big saloon, where the housewife's sister is "treating" the Steinway with Chopin, and she does it now for many years! The doll is a German CACO-doll, made in the early 40's. The piano is an antique one too, made in the beginning of this century, priced DM 1,25, today about 38p !!!
The William Morris ("Carole, pastel") is in the master bedroom, furniture from 1949 (see above); sewings as bed, curtains and dresses made by me, as well as the hats. The boxes on top of the cupboard are typical for that time.
As you can see, my dollshouse is typical German. It's selfdesigned and selfbuilt,even the little dog's house. When there is more time and space for us we'll build another house with shops to put all my designed dresses in.
Hoping to have given some useful information to you I send you my best regards. Heide.
Thanks, Heide! These last pictures show how she used her own ideas for the colourways for some of the designs.
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Added in September, 2000: "Elizabeth", shown here in the big saloon, has been worked in another of Heide's alternative colourways:
