My Clay-Over-Cloth Dolls
17 August, 2010 - 23:06
My clay faced dolls are made using a clay-over-cloth technique. I never use a mold, all my dolls are one-off works, hand sculpted and hand painted by myself.
Technically these are an all cloth doll which I then hand sculpt an air drying clay over the front of the head. This is then hand painted and varnished. The hands are sculpted with this clay and painted also.
This type of doll is reminiscent of the mid-1800 paper mache dolls. If you've got any early paper mache dolls hidden in the attic, these are worth over several thousand pounds at auction, hopefully in time your Diamond Hill Doll will be worth that too.
