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Learn Doll Repair & Restoration !

Antique Child Doll Restoration offers comprehensive doll repair and restoration  seminars several times a year. Learn doll repair in an environment designed for individualized attention and come away with the tools you need for success in doll repair and doll restoration. 

NOW! SHORT SESSONS ARE AVAILABLE Composition/Hard Plastic Seminar and a Bisque/China Doll Seminar is offered in 5 day sessions  to cover limited content.  After completing a shorter session, students are eligible for an  $800 CREDIT TOWARDS THE 14 DAY SESSION.

Both shorter sessions and a FULL career training curriculum of 14 days is available to teach all aspects of doll repair!!  With extensive experience in doll repair and educational Masters degrees, I am fully prepared to facilitate the comprehensive program needed for success in doll repair and restoration.   Janie

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The doll restoration, repair and career seminars are an excellent opportunity to learn about  professional, museum quality doll restoration, repair and period doll clothing.
 
Learn doll repair and restoration-
a lifetime career!!
Now Available is a 14-day training course to teach you all you need to know to operate a full service doll hospital.  This LABOR INTENSIVE, HANDS-ON CAREER TRAINING  will require you to bring dolls that you will fully restore in class.  With so much to learn, students will often work  long hours to complete the entire course.    You can not learn the skills like  invisible bisque repair, or composition repair, by listening to a lecture! 

Seminars are HANDS-ON  in which students will bring dolls and restore them while in class. 
Teaching doll restoration will cover many aspects of doll repair from simple restringing and proper cleaning procedures, to complete restoration, including airbrushing techniques.  In addition, students will take home essential equipment to continue doing restoration correctly at home. Students will learn how to:

Do invisible bisque and china repair, including rebuilding shoulder plates and fill in missing pieces.     
Fully restore composition dolls, from just repairing cracks to completely stripping them to bare composition 
Completely restore vinyl and hard plastic dolls
  Restring dolls.     
Eyes - setting sleep & stationary eyes to fabricating rocker assemblies to iris transplants for crazed eyes.     
How to clean dolls without damaging them.   
Repair leather bodies.    
Mend cloth bodies.     
Add colors to cheeks. 
Minimize crazing with craze control   
 Rebuild fingers, toes and other parts including entire feet
Restore bodies  from cloth, leather, wood, paper mache, tin and composition.     
How to make, clean and restore wigs and clothing.     
Colors selection - appropriate colors for antique dolls.
Business ethics, advertising, customer care, process and procedure of doing bid approvals for restoration/repairs, record keeping, billing and receiving payment.   

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Restoration Schedule
**Tentative unless filled
Mini Seminars Available Upon Request

July 18 & August 15, 2009

Filled
13 students

July 18th - China doll body fabrication
August 15th - China Doll clothing fabrication
        Pantaloons, petticoats, dresses, accessories

September 4 - 8, 2009

 

Filled

Bisque Restoration

November 10 - 25, 2009

Filled

Full Restoration Seminar

January 18 - February 1, 2010

Filled

Full Restoration Seminar

April 1 - 16, 2010

Filled

Full Restoration Seminar

July 19 - August 2, 2010

1 opening

Full Restoration Seminar

open dates October 15 - November 21, 2010

 

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