During a visit, she refused to accept a cloth doll or to acknowledge a guest who stopped to button her dress.
They also make cloth dolls dressed in traditional clothing.
However, these people generally do not commercialize their wares, with the exception of cloth dolls in local markets.
And an emotion even more powerful: a loss of faith so strong that it drained her until she felt like a cloth doll.
Some of the stuffed cloth dolls are meticulously dressed in Amish clothes and cost from $20 to $50.
Another $100 helped five young women in Nepal turn out cloth dolls for sale to tourists.
Nevertheless, toys of a different type, like cloth dolls, were available, through the generosity of someone's hands and time.
Ms. Phillips is an expert on creating cloth dolls.
Working from more than 20 prints, she tried to convey the two-dimensional images using 24-inch-high porcelain and cloth dolls.
Residents also engaged in the manufacture of beautiful cloth dolls.