Restringing demonstration - the Trendon girl
Brigitte's second restring at the Sasha Celebration weekend was a Trendon girl who had become floppy. She was a lot more complicated to restring than the Gotz girl before her. It involved using another cord (the stripy one) to help pull the main double cord through her body. Apparently Brigitte has made a video of the whole process which will be on her website soon.
Trendon restringing 1 - checking her neck ring |
Trendon restringing 2 - removing her leg |
Trendon restringing 3 - using pliers to undo her leg hook |
Trendon restringing 4 - removing her head |
Trendon restringing 5 - inspecting the neck hook |
Trendon restringing 6 - fascinated audience |
Trendon restringing 7 - only the arms still attached |
Trendon restringing 8 - tying the reef knot in the new elastic |
Trendon restringing 9 - adding string to elastic to make the ends lie flat |
Trendon restringing 10 - looping through the pull cord |
Trendon restringing 11 - the elastic and pull cord all wrapped around her hand, threading the cord through the neck |
Trendon restringing 12 - complicated elastic and pull cord loops |
Trendon restringing 13 - using the crochet hook to reach the other pull cord |
Trendon restringing 14 - feeding the pull cord through |
Trendon restringing 15 - grabbing the pull cord through the leg hole |
Trendon restringing 16 - new elastic poking through the neck hole |
Trendon restringing 17 - refitting the neck hook to the neck bar |
Trendon restringing 18 - hooking the elastic at the neck |
Trendon restringing 19 - pulling the cords to hook the legs onto the elastic |
Trendon restringing 20 - hooking on the leg |
Trendon restringing 21 - hooking on the other leg |
Trendon restringing 22 - standing again |
If you've missed the three previous posts about the Sasha Celebration you can find them at:
5 comments:
Brilliant DM, great shots and avid audience!
Hello from Spain: I really like. It is very interesting. Keep in touch.
.....and there was me always thinking that the Gotz Dolls were the hardest of the Sasha Dolls to re-string. Just goes to show what thought did!
Well done and thank you for this post. I, too, thought Gotz dolls were more difficult to string but had only heard that having never tried such a feat. It helps to see the stringing steps to understand that it is not as difficult as I had thought it was in my mind. :) xxx
Great set of photo's showing what needs to be done.
Thanks for sharing them.
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