Rag doll with red yarn hair celebrates 100th birthday. Published 12:00 am Sunday, September 20, 2015. ... All of the dolls except one has red yarn for hair and a triangle nose.

The doll was distinct in that it did not have the traditional red yarn hair. It was like the first dolls produced, with dark-brown hair and a painted face. The Knickerbocker Toy Co. produced the ...

Fabric dolls are a direct descendant of the homemade rag doll, and no doll typifies the American image better than the red, white and blue smiling faces of Raggedy Ann and Andy.

Her old-fashioned rag-doll look of yarn hair and soft body is eschewed for the more glamorous Barbie or Disney princess dolls. But in her day, Raggedy Ann was under many a tree on Christmas morning.

Raggedy Ann has endeared herself to young readers for a century – both as a rag doll toy with button eyes and red yarn hair and as the character of a bounty of stories by the late Johnny Gruelle ...