A doll is a model of a human (often a baby), an animal or a fictional character (like a troll or muppet). Dolls are usually made of cloth or plastic. Sometimes dolls are intended as keepsakes or held in collections for older children and adults.
Recommended Resources
A resource for doll artists, designers, collectors, and suppliers. This site includes links to resources for many different types of dolls including links to mailing lists, online classes, online magazines, tips for making dolls, a gallery, free patterns and tips and doll challenges.
http://www.thedollnet.com/
Original Doll Artist Council of America
Provides photographs and details about original dolls and figurative sculpture and offers a directory of artists who create them. Also contains biographical sketches and examples of each artist's work and the history of the organization.
http://www.odaca.org
Original Paper Dolls Artists Guild
An organization of paper doll enthusiasts presents paper doll history, tips for getting paper dolls published, selling a collection, preservation advice, links to related sites and a quarterly paper doll magazine.
http://www.opdag.com/
This site was developed to highlight the creations of Deborah King, which are dolls made in the likeness of baby boys and girls, and made to be as lifelike as possible. Several galleries of her work are featured here, along with a biography of the artist, who resides south of Edinburgh, Scotland.
http://www.reborn-baby.com/
How to recycle dolls and doll clothes. Gives detailed instructions regarding all aspects of doll restoration, including photographs and step by step instructions.
http://www.savethedolls.org/
