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Should work, but you will probably need to add a draw string casing to the neck, or some other way to secure it. The other issue I think the tab thing that will go in the body that might cause the head to be floppy if the body is only slightly stuffed.
Would an armature, say medium-guage, plastic coated wire covered with batting scraps, be strong enough to support the head? I'm thinking it would make the baby doll posable as well. It takes away from the under-stuffed feel of the doll, though. I hesitate to attach a rigid armature to a ceramic head. It might cause breakage at the neck. How are antique dolls made? I don't have any. Are the shoulders rigid? Do the heads flop?
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I have a doll from my childhood that is like you are talking about. The head was only attached by a type of drawstring really tight. As they years went by the stuffing & material has worn out so my grandmother tried to make a new body & attach the head & hands, she wasn't able to get it tight enough & it came off. ( I have never told her) the hands did stay on. There was no shaft on the neck as you have with the piggy. HOpe this helps.
Should work, but you will probably need to add a draw string casing to the neck, or some other way to secure it. The other issue I think the tab thing that will go in the body that might cause the head to be floppy if the body is only slightly stuffed.
Would an armature, say medium-guage, plastic coated wire covered with batting scraps, be strong enough to support the head? I'm thinking it would make the baby doll posable as well. It takes away from the under-stuffed feel of the doll, though. I hesitate to attach a rigid armature to a ceramic head. It might cause breakage at the neck. How are antique dolls made? I don't have any. Are the shoulders rigid? Do the heads flop?
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I have a doll from my childhood that is like you are talking about. The head was only attached by a type of drawstring really tight. As they years went by the stuffing & material has worn out so my grandmother tried to make a new body & attach the head & hands, she wasn't able to get it tight enough & it came off. ( I have never told her) the hands did stay on. There was no shaft on the neck as you have with the piggy. HOpe this helps.
Had an extremely close call at work last night, the closest I have come in my entire career to serious injury or worse. We were on hwy 69 driving emergency, when the car that had pulled to the right shoulder area suddenly shot across all lanes of traffic right in front of us!!!! When they hit the center median the vehicle was going sideways, don't have any idea how they kept from flipping it, or how we kept from T-boning it at highway emergency speeds. They crossed 4 lanes of traffic and a large center median and ended up on the far shoulder in the opposing lane of traffic, they didn't hit anything along the way.
