Minis On The Edge Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 What time period did dollhouses become popular? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 In Victorian times dollhouses began to become popular as toys for children, with little girls getting "practice for housekeeping", as I read somewhere. The titled ladies of 17th & 18th century courts collected dollhouses with early dolls made of papier-mache & wax. Earlier equivalents of our dollhoues were the Dutch "babyhouses" of the 16th & 17th centuries. In Japan, however, during the Shogunate & perhaps earlier, boh children & adults had dollhouses & dolls, with festivals for them. I remember in one of Kurosawa's last films he had the festival dolls come to life in a child's dream. I personally think all those Egyptian minis the archeologists find in tombs weren't just there as funerary art or for the deceased's use in the afterlife, it would be too much fun for them not to be enjoyed in their mortal plane, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debbie4159 Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Good Lord woman: all that talent and now all that knowledge too!!!! A person could really be intimidated if they weren't so busy learning!! LOL Fascinating info on the history of dollhouses. Debbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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