Cora keeps company with grief, love, and longing…the tender feelings that can all live in the same heart. Her little heart-shaped pocket is there for a worry you need to tuck away for a while. She’ll sit with you gently, holding space for whatever you’re carrying
Her head began as a fresh apple, carved by hand and slowly dried for about 30 hours or more. As the apple shrinks, it takes on its own expressive, weathered face. Then I build her broomcorn body and make her dress by hand, tailoring it to fit her. Cora wears a red farmhouse-print dress, a heart-shaped pocket, and sterling silver details among her beads and charms
Apple-head dolls are a humble North American folk craft, often traced to Indigenous makers of the Northeast and later carried on by Appalachian makers. Cora is one of my original Worry Women of Broom Hollow, made with that old handmade tradition in mind.
Cora keeps company with grief, love, and longing…the tender feelings that can all live in the same heart. Her little heart-shaped pocket is there for a worry you need to tuck away for a while. She’ll sit with you gently, holding space for whatever you’re carrying
Her head began as a fresh apple, carved by hand and slowly dried for about 30 hours or more. As the apple shrinks, it takes on its own expressive, weathered face. Then I build her broomcorn body and make her dress by hand, tailoring it to fit her. Cora wears a red farmhouse-print dress, a heart-shaped pocket, and sterling silver details among her beads and charms
Apple-head dolls are a humble North American folk craft, often traced to Indigenous makers of the Northeast and later carried on by Appalachian makers. Cora is one of my original Worry Women of Broom Hollow, made with that old handmade tradition in mind.
