A crafty team based in Tasmania, Australia - we hand-paint wooden dolls in historical costumes. We take orders - check out our website.Tumblr (3.0; @pendlerook)http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/17b4107e1ac91c7d1bf300316c6fcb95/tumblr_mhftfoqtvf1r6p4d2o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Deepings Dolls has a new website! Check out <a href="http://www.deepingsdolls.com/"><a href="http://www.deepingsdolls.com">www.deepingsdolls.com</a></a></p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tabithadarlingsbedroomfloor.tumblr.com/post/41860128848/on-selling-austenabilia-in-the-year-of-the-200th">tabithadarlingsbedroomfloor</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>On selling Austenabilia in the year of the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice - <a href="http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/wet-shirt-darcy-never-gets-old/">Wet Shirt Darcy Never Gets Old!</a></p> </blockquote>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/42007408253http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/42007408253Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:24:02 -0500Elizabeth Bennetpride and prejudicejane austendeepings dolls<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meia0qjjHe1r78y2zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37183037357http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37183037357Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:14:50 -0500deepings dollsjane austen<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meesqnLjd91rlnwz2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37182895464http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37182895464Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:09:42 -0500harpers bazarvintage christmas<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldnkesYNz51qbrdf3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>Hedy Lamarr   Christmas - 1940s</p> </blockquote>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37182712108http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37182712108Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:03:04 -0500hedy lamarrvintage christmas<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meenl1qQUG1rj1fawo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meenl1qQUG1rj1fawo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://prettyoldfashion.tumblr.com/post/37027713005">prettyoldfashion</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Rothmoor Coats</strong></p> <p>Vogue magazine advertisement, 1938</p> </blockquote>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37182675876http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37182675876Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:01:43 -05001940'sfortiescoats<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mef9k8HpkA1qmz42ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://uneamiedelabc.tumblr.com/post/37057987444/period-characters-elizabeth-bennet-portrayed">uneamiedelabc</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://uneamiedelabc.tumblr.com/tagged/period-characters">Period characters</a>: <em><strong>Elizabeth Bennet</strong> portrayed by Jennifer Ehle</em></p> </blockquote>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37102399121http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37102399121Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:21:56 -0500pride and prejudiceJennifer EhleElizabeth Bennetjane austen<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mefq88UG6W1r78y2zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Wet Shirt Mr Darcy, one of our more popular literary characters at the <a href="http://www.deepingsdolls.com">Deepings Dolls</a>.</p>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37086518300http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/37086518300Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:12:08 -0500mr darcyjane austenpemberleypride and prejudicedeepings dolls<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcmzyaONtp1qidnqfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://oldrags.tumblr.com/post/34698802544/witch-fancy-dress-1887-england-fancy-dresses">oldrags</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Witch fancy dress, 1887 England, Fancy Dresses Described by Ardern Holt</p> <blockquote> <p>(<em>See</em> Hubbard, Mother; Macbeth, and Coloured Illustration, Plate XV.) Short quilted skirt of red satin, with cats and lizards in black velvet; gold satin panier tunic; black velvet bodice laced over an old-gold crêpe bodice; small cat on right shoulder, a broom in the hand, with owl; tall pointed velvet cap; shoes with buckles.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/36388085575http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/36388085575Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:05:18 -0500witchesfashion plates<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdsbypZnGw1r78y2zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/36133836235http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/36133836235Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:59:00 -0500deepings dollsgrapesvintnerwinerobert louis stevensonpoetry<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdo309ELG61r3kvlco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://the-morning-and-the-evening-star.tumblr.com/post/35965681103">the-morning-and-the-evening-star</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://vickievictoriana.tumblr.com/post/35965139752/elizabeth-i-painted-as-a-princess-about-age-14-by">vickievictoriana</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/3394279486/" title="Elizabeth I, painted as a princess about age 14">Elizabeth I, painted as a princess about age 14</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/">lisby1</a> on Flickr.</p> <p>Princess Elizabeth (later Queen) when she was about 14</p> </blockquote> <p>What no one knows is that this famous painting was painted by a woman. Something quite radical for the time. Women painters were rare because to become a painter one had to go to a sort of boarding school with other boys to apprentice. The few renaissance female painters were taught by their fathers.</p> <p>This very well known painting of Queen Elizabeth I as a princess was painted by Levina Teerlinc. </p> </blockquote>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/36133764035http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/36133764035Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:56:17 -0500elizabeth Itudor<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdrphwiGfv1qac76ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/post/36116953775/tell-me-constance">oldbookillustrations</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Tell me Constance: how do I look this evening?</em></p> <p>Hugh Thomson, from <em>She stoops to conquer; or the mistakes of a night</em>, by Oliver Goldsmith, London, New York, Toronto, not dated.</p> <p>(Source: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/shestoopstoconqu00golduoft">archive.org</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/36133645931http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/36133645931Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:51:25 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdnuoePvfZ1r78y2zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35953482316http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35953482316Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:55:26 -0500jane austen<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mces8xfjSt1qhk4mjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35953368437http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35953368437Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:53:44 -0500jane austen<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mczaf9qlF81rzia9go1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35952539044http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35952539044Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:41:09 -0500persuasionjane austen<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mde0z5CvsC1rzia9go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35952391997http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35952391997Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:38:56 -0500jane austen<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdnd7eb4GC1qac76ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/post/35928009291/repentiras-colin">oldbookillustrations</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Tu t’en repentiras, Colin.</em></p> <p>George du Maurier, from <em>Wives and daughters : an every-day story</em>, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, London, 1866.</p> <p>(Source: <a href="http://archive.org/details/wivesdaughtersev01gask">archive.org</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35952111152http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35952111152Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:34:41 -0500VictorianaVictorian fashion<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9p5raLu2b1rs1djgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://silentcuriosity.tumblr.com/post/30690211758/justine-johnstone-after-giving-up-performing-in">silentcuriosity</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span><strong>Justine Johnstone-</strong>After giving up performing in film and as a Ziegeld girl, she enrolled in Columbia University, where she studied plant research and served as a research assistant to Samuel Hirshberg and Harold T. Hyman. The team developed the modern I.V. unit; their key breakthrough was to slow down the rate of delivery and avoid what was then known as “speed shock” by introducing the now-ubiquitous drip technique. She later studied and made developments in endocrinology and cancer research and installed a laboratory in her house in Hollywood.</span></p> </blockquote>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35951991424http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35951991424Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:32:51 -0500flappers<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md9flc5rhY1qatfdco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/35937975185">vivelareine</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A portrait of Marie Antoinette and her children, after a painting by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun</p> <p><small>source: <a href="http://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Marie-Antoinette-und-ihre-K/0EFE41955429F97Fhttp://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Marie-Antoinette-und-ihre-K/0EFE41955429F97F">MutualArt.com</a></small></p> </blockquote>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35951778584http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35951778584Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:29:38 -0500marie antoinetteelisabeth vigee-lebrun<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdmrfuompA1r78y2zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35903864476http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35903864476Sat, 17 Nov 2012 06:47:53 -0500queen of heartsAlice In Wonderlanddeepings dolls<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdmrc9M7Kn1r78y2zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35903804196http://pendlerook.tumblr.com/post/35903804196Sat, 17 Nov 2012 06:45:45 -0500police boxpolice womandeepings dolls