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TEXTILE HISTORY PAPER DOLL BARBIE, 2007

American textile history is printed on paper doll Barbie’s clothes. Original doll is from 1980. History is in the form of text and images from mill worker interviews and portraits, tools, statistics, and mill life folk songs.

MEDIUM AND SIZE: Digital prints cut paper doll clothes. Found object into sculptural book.

Original paper doll with altered box.	Paper outfit showing cotton picker.	Paper outfit prom dress showing ghosts of young mill girls.	Paper outfit with loom.