May 25, 2025
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Learn how to screenprint and bind your own book! Print pages of pre-designed paper dolls inspired by experimental garments created by Artists-in-Residence featured in our current exhibition. Then, learn the pamphlet stitch technique to assemble your new book of paper dolls to take with you for coloring or gifting. Revisit this throwback era of modular play while learning a new bookbinding skill to share your ideas.
Organized in conjunction with Soft/Cover.
May 25, 2025
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Sixth Floor Print Studio
“As products of both popular culture and mass marketing, paper dolls are intentionally designed to reflect that society’s idealized version of womanhood. The dolls’ little paper wardrobes communicate a wealth of information about the ideal woman of the past.”
History of Paper Dolls and Popular Culture: A Two-Dimensional View of Fashion
National Women’s History Museum, November 20, 2016
“…paper dolls also suggest something more hopeful—the possibility of transformation. And that transformation means that they are also a potent symbol for code-switching, of how changing outfits can change how you are perceived and act in different groups and situations.”
The Hidden Queer History of Paper Dolls
Decoder Ring Podcast by Slate, by Benjamin Frisch and Willa Paskin, August 27, 2018
