Roger - Bear in a shirt

Roger is a six-joint character bear

Roger is  made from two shades of soft windswept finish mohair; contrasts on his ears, snout, chest, paws and the tip of his tail.  I like the contrasts and the fur blended very well but i wanted to avoid straight lines so all the joins between the colours are curves to soften the effect.

He has vintage boot buttons eyes. His filling is a mixture of soft man made fibre, excelsior wood-wool and plastic pellets.  Roger's feet are wool felt which is shaped and pull sculpted.

He is designed to stand firmly and his legs are weighted with steel pellets.

Roger has my "signature" embroidered nose which is set, colour shaded and wax finished to a smooth satin.

His shirt is made from a vintage cotton print and has imitation pearl buttons.  The convertible style casual collar can button to the neck or left with the top button open to make a lapel style.

For more pictures of Roger with, and without his shirt please keep scrolling after the description and details.

16 inches ( 40 cms ) Standing

12 inches ( 31 cms ) Seated

40 ounces ( 1158 gm ) weight

Ref 010/22

Price £475.00 SOLD

Roger is now sold, to make enquiries or to be added to the mailing list please contact me using the following:-

hugoshousebears@gmail.com

Thank you for looking, please scroll down for more photos of Roger, with and without his shirt so you can see the two shades of mohair used.

For more information or to purchase Roger please e.mail me using:-

hugoshousebears@gmail.com

Shrinking bears again

This is becoming a regular theme.  This time I decided it was time that the six-joint standing bear should be treated to a smaller cousin.  And, as has been the case before, the shrinking process didn't go quite as far as I intended but I managed just over 9 inches; I will also try very hard to make sure that it doesn't grow with pattern revisions.

I thought that such a small bear deserved a very big name so the first one was called Hercules.

 

 

The small size has meant that I have had to revise a lot of the joint components and in particular a smaller nut and bolt set for jointing. I know that doesn't sound like much but after 23 years of the same it is a big change in my little world.  It was especially fiddly fitting it inside the neck section and I am still refining that.

 

 

I have had to use glass eyes over  my preferred vintage boot buttons too,  there simply aren't any that small.

 

 

Purely to give an idea of scale....

 

A bear has to eat, the dogs won't miss one biscuit

 

 

Hercules soon acquired a "brother" but in a rusty shade. It seemed quite an appropriate shade for Autumn so he decided to be photographed with some of the pretty leaves from the Acer in my front garden, I know, everybody else has pumpkins and I just wanted to be different.

 

 

This one is Wotan, another large name for a small bear, and I am pleased to report that, despite a few minor pattern adjustments he didn't come out any taller.

 

More information about my bears, including any available, can be found on my website at

 

www.hugoshouse.com

 

If you would like earliest information about new bears as they become available please e.mail me at

Gregory@hugoshouse.com

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