The Spindle Sisters

The Spindle Sisters Purveyors of exquisite and fantastic paper dolls to delight all ages and inspire transportive flight We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!

We have been making paper dolls together since we were little girls. After years of fun in this realm, we decided we should share our creativity with the world! Our paper dolls are inspired by the stories and characters -historical or fantastical- that we love the best.

Our yarn dragon is now available on a tee-shirt, by popular demand! It comes in several fun colors in both women's and m...
09/21/2025

Our yarn dragon is now available on a tee-shirt, by popular demand! It comes in several fun colors in both women's and men's/unisex shirts. Check it out, yarn fiends! :-)
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This Crop Tops item is sold by TheSpindleSisters. Ships from Charlotte, NC. Listed on Sep 21, 2025

09/15/2025

Barred from using telescopes, the women of the Harvard Observatory studied the stars through glass photographic plates. With patience and precision, they mapped the heavens by hand, one star at a time.

Henrietta Leavitt discovered the method to measure cosmic distances, a breakthrough that opened the universe to modern astronomy. Annie Jump Cannon created the stellar classification system that is still taught in classrooms today.

Despite their extraordinary contributions, these women were underpaid and left without proper credit. Yet their work quietly redefined humanity’s understanding of the cosmos and our place within it.

Sources: Johnson, George. Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe. W.W. Norton, 2006.
Sobel, Dava. The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. Viking, 2016.

This is our periodic update on donations to Razom for Ukraine, based on sales of our Ukraine Peace Dragon sticker. We do...
09/02/2025

This is our periodic update on donations to Razom for Ukraine, based on sales of our Ukraine Peace Dragon sticker. We donate 75% of the profit from each sale to this cause, which provides resources for Ukrainian refugees. This most recent donation reflects all sales so far this year, and we thank everyone who purchased a sticker. We still have plenty of Ukraine Peace Dragon stickers!

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Our Story

Our purpose is to tell stories that inspire and uplift. We do this through the artistic images we create: paper dolls, coloring books, story books, and even our simple print art. Most of the stories center around women and girls, because we see a need for more of those stories. They are sometimes fairy tales, or stories that inspire us to fantasize; other times they are stories of literal truths, of the real lives of women who have inspired us. We have been making paper dolls and telling stories together since we were little girls. After years of fun in this realm, we decided we should share our creativity with the world! Our paper dolls are inspired by the stories and characters -historical or fantastical- that we love the best. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!