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Ling Leng saved to Doll making
Antique and composition doll restoration and sales by SwankyKitty, composition doll restoration

Pam Carter saved to Doll Making and Repair
1. The Slate Guy Desilu Productions staffer Bill McGovern slating scene after scene of Star Trek with a nonchalance bordering on apathy. Some of the greatest scenes and most iconic characters in sci fi TV history, and McGovern, clapboard in hand, looks like he couldn’t care less if his life depended on it (Desilu was an…

Weronika Lo saved to Bold Design
The restored wig On several different occasions people have told me they are afraid to restore composition dolls for many reasons, chief among them that you can't clean or style their mohair wigs. My response the first time I heard this was, "Wha...?" One of the benefits of starting out with just enough doll-restoring experience to be dangerous is I went blithely on my way, fixing dolls hither, thither, and yon, completely ignorant of the accepted dogma. The truth is, you CAN clean…

Margita Polonyova saved to Vlasy
Composition and cloth Effanbee Lovums Boom Boom McCutiekins has a composition head with molded brown hair, green clear sleep eyes with full lashes, open/happy/smiling/laughing mouth with 2 upper teeth...from

Kimberlee LaVern saved to Vintage photos and dolls
French fashion doll. Undergarments of ca. 1878-85. These exquisite little fashion dolls were used by French designers as promotional advertising abroad, and there are stories that the dolls continued to be sent through even during times of war, so beloved were they by fashion followers.
A bunch of dolls with bad hair. Today's blog-posting marathon concludes with a tutorial on restoring doll hair. I've been so busy work...
Francine Brniers saved to Dolls handmade