2010 Original Friends Doll Fairy, Dolls of the Feria Maestros Del Arte Signed

Preowned Handmade Guadalajara Mexico Approx 18” Tall Signed (on back of head and butt) 2010 Klara Szigotay See all photos as they are part of description. Black, orange white & blue with gold tone bow and red & clear sparkly wings. Original Friends Dolls is a project run at the Reclusorio Feminil of Puente Grande prison just outside Guadalajara, Mexico, which aims to provide women at the facility a better means of making money then through the prison programs. It was begun in 2008 by Rebecca Roth and Esmeralda Hernández José. The inspiration for the project was the making of a cloth doll by Roth for the young daughter of one of her cellmates. Hernández José noted the need for another means of earning income, so the two decided to make and sell the dolls, using scrap cloth. The program was successful, with about 100 dolls sold before Roth even left the prison in 2010. Since then more than 1,200 have been sold to collectors and other, primarily in Mexico and the United States. Since 2010, the project has sold dolls through the Feria Maestros del Arte, a major handcraft fair in Mexico