Photo Credit: Nancy Gibson-Nash
As I mentioned a while ago, this summer I got to visit Dahlov Ipcar in her home. I was very taken with her soft sculptures, the intricate and perfectly proportioned animals that she sews by hand. I asked Dahlov how she first came to make them, and she replied that a long while back her son's stuffed horse became damaged, and in sewing it up she realized that she could make animals on her own. I suspect she felt she could make more imaginative toys, as imagination has always been one of her great gifts. Above is an opossum family; the fabrics, to me, make them distinctively Dahlov creations.
