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A Treasured Treasury of Beloved Characters (2024).

Wool felt, cotton lawn, strawboard, embroidery & poly cotton thread, recycled PET stuffing, armature wire, plastic eyes.

Here is a collection of characters I met when I was small, all of whom have stayed with me every day since. They are housed, stitched and squished in this felt book, akin to their arrangement in my brain.

Posters available here.

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Tove Jansson (1914–2001) Moominland Midwinter

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Moomin 1.21 Snufkin Leaves Moominvalley

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"Mother, I love you terribly,"

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Happy December 1st!

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Snufkin by the fire waiting for tea.

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The dolls were made in 1969 by the then 14-year-old future television producer Marie Nyreröd. After the first “Moomin boom” in the second half of the 1950s, interest in merchandise of Moomin figurines faded, and very few were produced. Instead, it became common for people to make their own figures and dolls. Today, Marie Nyreröd's dolls stand out as a charming and salutary contrast to countless “soft moomins” that today flood the market.