The Lace Guild sell a kit with one little wooden body plus a pattern for choirister, angel or King, designed by Jean Leader. I've got a few kits in the parcel for Tonbridge Fair on Sunday. For bodies only I got a pack of 10 from SMP last year.
Claire Allen (another Arachnean) has designed a variation (a diffrent skirt) of the pattern for angel-or-chorister. She had them shown on her webpage but either I didn't bookmark it, or else it got lost somewhere... I have *both* patterns. And I have an idea how to make an "angelic chorister" out of the same basic pattern, but it'll have to wait its turn -- probably next summer :)
For a long time, I was unable to find "proper" bodies for the little suckers, um... *angels* <g> on this side of the pond; ours do not have the dowel necks -- the body cone feeds directly into the head-ball. A small thing, but annoying, nevertheless :) At the August IOLI Convention however, one of the vendors had the "real thing", and I bought a few. I think the vendor was Mayra Petretti, the US distributor for Atelier Moravia and, while I do not remember the price per body, it didn't seem unreasonable, even when compared to Michaels' mis-shapen one...
You still need to get the original kit from either the Hollies (Jean's) or from Claire but, once you have the pattern, you can churn them out indefinitely (how many angels on a pin-head? <g>), as long as you have a convenient source for the bodies...
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