Olive Sparrow Child Profile: Kalle
Kalle is Silas's (scroll down to see him) cousin. He now lives together with Lina and Mia and a wonderful family that has four children. Kalle is 45 cm tall and a very sweet and attentive brother.
He is also very stylish and loves to stay warm with a felted cashmere scarf and shoes.
His linen shirt is sewn with french seams and has two snaps to hold it closed (easy on little hands). His vest is an up-cycled wool sweater and looks very hip. His pants are made from a beautiful cotton-linen mix.
As you can see, he is Lina and Mia's older brother.
Here are the three of them. To see detail pictures of Lina and Mia scroll down on that page.
Each doll is made up of the following materials.
Skin: 100% cotton (Swiss-made to Öko-Tex-Standard 100)
Stuffing 100% “green-processed” wool batt
Hair: 100% Wool, or a Mohair/Wool Blend
Clothing: 100% natural fibres (linen, cotton, silk)
Shoes: Recycled felted wool sweaters, or pure leather
Face: 100% cotton Embroidery Thread
Workmanship:
Each doll is created individually by artist Monika Aebischer, the proprietor of The Olive Sparrow. She sources and uses only the highest quality materials in her creations – swiss-made skin fabric, north-eastern-Ontario green processed wool stuffing, her own hand-dyed wool/mohair for the dolls hair.
She uses up-cycled vintage and clothing fabrics, in either pure linen, cotton or silk. Up-cycled fabric is wonderful for doll clothes, as the cloth has been washed soft, gentle and free of textile manufacturing products. Monika also felts used woolen sweaters to use for doll shoes and clothing. She knits the doll’s hats out of prime quality knitting wool. Each seam on the doll’s body is sewn twice to allow your child to fiercely love their Olive Sparrow Child. Clothing is sewn with French seams and some are fully reversible.
All Olive Sparrow Children’s hair is made from a crochet cap that is sewn to the head, allowing for replacement should it ever become necessary (although most children will object to this, as it changes their doll dramatically). The hair of each doll is made from wool or mohair yarns.