Santos dolls

You have seen them..... silently watching over a collection of brocante items lovingly arranged atop tables and shelves in a rustic French Provincial farmhouse. They are called Santos cage dolls and after becoming more and more popular over the past few years, they now are enthusiastically sought after by collectors and designers that want to add old world style to their homes. Originally started as copies of 17th century carvings by priests and called saint dolls or Santons in French…

Beautiful Santos Cage Dolls come in different forms and sizes

Several of you have been asking me for Santos Cage Dolls for a while now and last Sunday I decided to go for it! Santos Cage Dolls have been popular in the mixed media world for some time now, so I'm super excited to bring you some, Retro Café Art Gallery style! I modeled my dolls after traditional Santos Cage Dolls and our fantastic articulated doll style worked perfectly for them! We also have several yummy new colors of Inka Gold in stock, just in time for Valentine's Day! CHECK IT OUT…

Do you love Santos dolls as much as I do? Every since scoring my first reproduction Santos doll a few years ago (see her transformation her...

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This sweet lady is a vintage-style Santos Cage Doll. She has a medium complexion with brown hair and eyes. Her hair is molded brown (which helps to hold on to tiny crowns), with a cute curl in the front. She is painted with a gold dress fading in to a dark brown wooden cage and base. She is approx.

Learn how to make a Santos Cage doll including how to build the base of the art doll and create the Santos Doll cage.

Oh Oh Oh.. how I have always wanted one of these! Santo (from the Spanish word meaning "saint") is a traditional New Mexican genre of religious sculpture. The word "santo" is also used to refer to individual works in this genre. Santos are carvings, either in wood or ivory, that depict saints,angels, or other religious figures. I was just breezing through Home Goods and there she was Happy Valentine's to me! I've even made her clothes... out of vintage trim, coffee filters, vintage…