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• Antonette Cely Dolls: Workbook  - Shares tips and techniques for doll hair, glass eyes, stuffing, shoemaking, jewelry making, shoes, and cloth hands.
• China Paint Tips  - Furnishes information on painting basic features, color, mediums, and firing tips for porcelain dolls.
• Cloth Doll Connection  - Features online classes for doll making and showcase of dolls for sale.
• Cloth Doll Making  - Tutorials, information, and techniques for making girl, boy, baby, mermaid, and merman cloth dolls.
• Designs 4 Dolls  - Houses information on embroidery and sewing guide.
• Doll Artisan Guild (DAG)  - Association dedicated to supporting porcelain doll making. Aims to educate doll makers and to advance the understanding of doll making techniques.
• Elvenwork: Tips and Techniques  - Features tips for working in polymer clay, including selecting and preparing the clay, tools, textures, baking, proportioning, and modeling.
• History of the Doll  - Discusses origins of dolls, including European and American industry, and patterns for doll clothes.
• Johnston Original Art Dolls  - Adverts the group's seminars and doll class schedules, with catalog and image gallery.
• Laura's Sculptures and Art Dolls  - Offers images and how-to information for various stages of a clay doll of the artist's mother.
• Let's Sculpt  - Contains step-by-step, illustrated instructions for creating a polymer clay fairy.
• Natasha Fadeeva  - Gallery of hand made cloth dolls and stuffed animals made of knitted mohair.
• National Institute of American Doll Artists  - Worldwide organization promotes the art of the handmade doll. Includes history, artists, tips, techniques, events, and resources.
• Original Doll Artists Council of America  - International organization of artists who create original dolls and figurative sculpture, presenting member directory, history and tips.
• Patti LaValley Designs  - Highlights artist profile, dollmaking classes and gallery of works.
• Soft Dolls and Animals  - Bimonthly magazine created for enthusiasts and collectors of cloth dolls, teddy bears, and animals.
• Tom Banwell Designs  - Details specialty in prototypes, awards, architectural, figurines and doll parts. Contact details and links included.
• Universal Doll Society  - Promotes porcelain dollmaking with newsletters, festivals, workshops and competitions.
• Washington Japanese Dolls and Craft school  - Resource for ancient Japanese doll and craft making techniques including Kimekomi, Gosho, Oyama, Warabe, Hagoita and Oshie. Plus featured dolls and catalogs.