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Common Reborning & Sculpting Terms and Techniques≈ ¼ limbs – Short limbs that end before the elbow (arms) and before the knee (legs). These create dolls that are very posable and cuddly, but they are more difficult to dress. ¾ limbs – Limbs that include the elbows and knees, but are not full limbs. These limbs make it possible to use a jointed body while still making it possible to dress the doll in short sleeve shirts or dresses. AA Baby – AA stands for African American. This is usually used to describe a doll with a dark skin tone. Acetone – A liquid substance used to strip the factory paint off of a play doll, or to strip a reborn that needs to be repainted. Acetone can damage the vinyl and should be used with care. There is also a strong smell so it must be used in a well ventilated area. Acrylics – Also known as acrylic paints. A type of paint that is occasionally still used in reborning. Air dry paints – A type of paint that dries without being heat set. Aleene’s paper glaze – used to create moist looking eyes and lips, and sometimes used to create baby tears. Aluminum Foil – often used to form armatures in sculpting. Angora Mohair – Mohair that has been sheared from angora goats. Apple Valley - AKA Apple Valley Doll Works. These dolls and kits are used to create reborns. Armature – the base for a sculpture. Armatures can be foil, Styrofoam, wire, etc. Ashton Drake - The Ashton-Drake galleries produce collectible dolls. Awl – a tool used to open the noses on reborn dolls. Baby Fat - silicone inserts that are placed inside the doll body to feel squishy like a real baby. Ball Jointed Doll - a doll that is created with "balls" as the joints at the shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. Barbless needles – rooting needles that do not have any barbs along the sides of them. Belly Plate – A vinyl or silicone belly or tummy that is painted to match the limbs and head. Belly plates are generally for display purposes only. Berenguer - Dolls by Berenguer is a company that makes play dolls, special edition dolls and doll kits. Berjusa dolls are made by Berenguer. Berry Maker – a tool used in reborning to create a mottled look that is similar to a real baby’s skin. Berry makers come in a few sizes. Artists cut the end of the berry maker to remove the tip and use it by pouncing it repeatedly on the painted doll kit. Bi-racial Baby – a term often used to describe a doll that is painted with a medium skin tone. Birth Certificate – a certificate that the artist creates to describe the name, date of creation, weight, length and artist name of a doll. Blushing – adding colour to the doll to create depth and realism. Bountiful Baby - a Utah based company that sells reborning supplies and doll kits. Breather – a doll that has had it’s nose opened for realism. Breathing Mechanism - a mechanical unit that fits inside the doll body. A button (usually on the back of the neck) can be pressed to make the baby's chest appear to rise and fall. Cable Ties – Plastic ties that are used to attach the head and limbs to the body when completing a reborn doll. Capillaries – tiny veins, usually found on the eyelids. Care Sheet – a sheet describing how to properly care for a reborn baby. Artists usually include a care sheet when they send dolls to collectors. Cernit - one of the strongest clays. Though easily conditioned, it is also very flexible when cured. Cernit is a popular clay among doll-makers because of its translucent quality and the porcelain-like finish it has after curing. Cititoy - a company that makes play dolls. Clay – a substance used for molding and creating OOAK sculpts. Some different types of clay include prosculpt, cernit, fimo, super sculpey, polymer clay. Clay Softener - There are two clay softeners on the market. One is called "Sculpey Clay Softener" and the other is called "Diluent F". Some have had luck using mineral oil in place of diluent, particularly for softening raw clay. Cloth Body - the type of body usually used on reborns and some sculpts. Colour Wheel - (seen below) used to neutralize colour in vinyl or to make color corrections on painted dolls. You look for the basic colour on the wheel that you want to neutralize, and then you paint with the colour that is opposite it on the wheel. Colour/Color wash - used when you need to add an overall colour to your doll. For example, if your doll is appearing purple, you can do an overall yellow color wash to neutralize the purple. Couture - high quality clothing. Haute couture for reborns usually includes either handmade designer gowns, rompers or bubble rompers, or designer name brands like Will'Beth or Petit Ami. Creasing - painting the wrinkles and creases on a doll so that they appear to have a shadow. Used to create depth and realism in reborn dolls. Crown - the back of the head where the hair meets in a swirl. Crown Needles - a type of rooting needle. Cuddle Therapy – a phrase that was coined to describe the use of reborn dolls in nursing homes. There is a proven calming effect when dolls are given to dementia patients in long term care facilities. Custom Doll – a doll that is customized for a collector. Directional Rooting - the process of rooting hairs so that they appear to be growing out of the head in the same patterns as a real baby's hair. Discover Dolls – a UK based doll magazine. Doe Suede body – a type of doll body that is made from soft doe suede. Doe suede bodies usually come in a variety of flesh tones. Dremel – a rotary tool often used to open the noses of reborn doll kits. E6000 – a type of glue used to secure magnets inside the head of a doll, as well as to glue felt, cardboard or foam to the open ends of the limbs. Earth magnets – a powerful magnet used to attach pacifiers and bows to reborns. These magnets are very strong and should not be used around electronic equipment or people with pace makers. Ethnic Baby – used to describe dolls that are any ethnicity besides Caucasian. Exacto Knife – a very sharp knife tool used to cut the excess vinyl around the openings at the neck and limbs of a vinyl doll kit. EXPO - The Doll & Teddy Bear Expo is a large doll show hosted by Jones Publishing. Eyebrows – Eyebrows are either painted on with a fine paint brush, or drawn on with a water colour pencil. Eyelashes – Lashes can be rooted or glued onto a doll. Usually, eyelashes are rooted into a sleeping doll and glued on awake dolls, but occasionally artists will root lashes on awake dolls too. Lashes are sometimes applied to the bottom lid as well. Faux Formula - a concoction made to look like baby formula and put in a sealed baby bottle to use as a prop for baby dolls. Usually it is just white liquid fabric softener put into a baby bottle. Felt – used to back an open nose or to seal the open ends of the head and limbs. Some artists used coloured felt on translucent doll kits to back the face and add depth. Felting needle - straight needles with barbs cut along the shaft. Used for rooting mohair onto dolls. Forked Needles - straight needles that have a tiny fork in the end, rather than barbs on the shaft of the needle. Full limbs – Limbs that include shoulders and hips (to a minor extent). These limbs are the best for displaying reborn babies in diapers or onesies. Gallery Glass – used on the lips of reborns by some artists. Genesis Heat Set Paints – these are the most popular paint for creating reborn dolls. These paints have a huge variety of deep pigments and they are not set until heated either in the oven or with a heat gun. GHSP is set after baking in the oven at 268 F for 8 minutes. German Needles - Barbless rooting needles that come in a variety of sizes, including 42g and 43g. Glass Beads – very fine glass beads that are used to weight dolls to give them a realistic feel. Glass Eyes - Doll eyes that are made of glass. They are available as full round mouthblown glass eyes, or as paperweight flat back glass eyes. They are often from Germany. Glazing Medium Guild – a group of artists that have either been invited or approved to belong, usually based on their level of skill, customer service and popularity. Hand rooted - refers to hair that has been rooted on a doll with a needle, but has more than 3 hairs per hole. Heartbeat Mechanism - a battery operated mechanism that simulates a beating heart when turned on. Heat gun - used to set Genesis heat set paints. These heat guns is 110 volts and gets very hot. Hello Dolly – a UK based reborn magazine. IDEX – International Doll Expo put on by Madavor Media in Orlando, Florida. Inks - previously used to colour play dolls and create reborn dolls. Interior Wash - usually a thin purple layer of paint inside of the vinyl doll kit. This is used on transluscent vinyl to create depth. Artists have found that interior washes done with acrylic paints, inks or dyes will bleed through the vinyl. Genesis heat set paints do not bleed through. Jointed Body - a cloth body that has plastic joints at the shoulders and hips so that the arms and legs will move. Kid Mohair - Mohair sheared from a young goat. Kit – generally includes a head and limbs to be used to create a reborn doll. Sometimes kits will include a body for the doll or other extras like eyes. Layette – the clothing, props and blankets that the artist includes in the sale of a reborn doll. Leave in Conditioner - A doll's mohair can be gently styled and combed more easily after being sprayed with a gentle leave-in conditioner. Lee Middleton Lifelike Dolls - North America's Premiere Reborning and OOAK Sculpting Magazine. A bi-monthly publication that focuses on the art of reborn doll making. Light Box Limited Edition Liner Brush Liquid Sculpey MacPherson Crafts - A Canadian based craft store that specializes in reborn doll supplies. Beginners and Advanced reborning classes are offered monthly, and sculpting classes are taught monthly by Dawn McLeod. Jack Johnson will also be teaching a sculpting class occasionally. Ships worldwide. Macro setting - a setting found on many digital cameras that allows the artist to take extreme close up shots and capture things like skin texturing. The macro button often has the image of a flower on it. Madavor Magnetic Pacifier Matte Varnish Memorial Doll Micro-rooted Milk Bumps Milla Mineral Spirits Mini Mohair Molds Moonies/Crescent Marks Mop Brush Mottling Mushroom Handles Nail tips Natural Lighting Neck Flange Neutralize Newborning Newborning Nursery Nylon stockings Odorless Thinner Oil Paints Onesie OOAK Open Edition Open Nose Paint Brushes Painted Hair Palette Peaches and Cream Plugs Poly Pellets Polymer Clay Polymer Glass Eyes Portrait Doll Posing Pounce Premium Mohair Prosculpt Prototype Purple Wash Reborn Reborning Resell Resin Rit Dye Roller Root to tip method Rooting Rooting tool Sand Sculpt Sculptor Sea Sponge Secrist Doll Company Silicone Silicone Eyes Silicone Vinyl Kit Simply Reborn Soft Sculpture Sponges Strip Styrofoam Super Sculpty Swirl Templates Textured Skin Therapy Baby Thinner Thinning Shears Tiny Treasures Translucent Vinyl Tushy Plate Ultra micro-rooted Umbilical Cord Veining Voice Recorder Weighted Wig Winsor Newton Brush Cleaner Yearling
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