Making Doll Hair | My 3 Favourite Styles For Natural Fiber Art Dolls: Mohair Yarn, Wefts And Locks

Hello and welcome to just another video spouting the joys of dough making. This time we will talk about the different techniques, materials and styles, to give your dog gorgeous hair. I'Ve been meaning to create this video to accompany an in-depth article on my blog on how to make dull hair. If you want to go and check that one out it was published quite a few years ago. However, i take care to update all sources with working links and add more as i find new information or tutorials to share with you all. I listed and said article all the types of dull hair that either i've personally used or that some of my doll maker friends use on their dolls. So, instead of repeating everything written down in that post in this video, i will be discussing my three favorite styles of doll, hair, starting with the all-natural and most simple of all mohair yarn. This is the simplest technique to create dull hair, as once you crochet or knit the cap you're pretty much done. Naturally, this was love at first sight for me, but it wasn't the first doll hairstyle. I tried when i started making dolls back in 2008. 13 years ago now i was using thick yarns and then i started using added strands of hand, spine yarns as well. This created very fun colors and a lot of texture, which was fun to me and fun for my little customers, but little by little, i long for the simplicity of the mohair yarn caps traditionally used on welder inspired dolls. In my humble opinion, this will always be the most suitable dull hair for dolls men to be played by very young children. It is soft, it comes in so many colors and it adds such an unbeatable wholesome charm to the dots it keeps them so rooted in childhood. You see that's one of the reasons. I think i love it so much now there are a few different techniques to create more haircuts, using though making yarn - and i have luckily already shown you two in this youtube channel - you can check out the video for the wig cap made for hansel and how I added longer strands of yarn to make the braids for gretel one of my most favorite dolls of mine. Miss poet has nothing but a simple cap of mohair yard. People have asked me countless of times why i never gave her long tresses with more hair, weft or usury alpaca, and the truth says that those types of hair age, the dolls or at least in my opinion, add a realism to the adult that poor doesn't really Need she's, magical, full of innocence and her sweet, simple dress of cute mohair wisps. It is a style of doll hair. I included in my little fake doll pattern as well as the one i love to use. When i make baby dolls, i just think it adds a very special quality to the adults, allowing your imagination to run free and your playful sensibility to blossom. There are several brands that produce high quality, mohair yarns used specifically for doll making. If you want to check them out, there are several links to articles placed in the video description box below now. My second favorite style of dull hair is using commercial, mohair wefts, of course, not just the mohair ones. There are commercial wefts available made with the fiber from goats, but also yak and camel. These are the most common ones. These wefts are available in all sorts of textures, colors and lamps. Some are quite fine and are prone to tangling, while others are treated and chemically permed, which makes them very suitable for constant handling, styling, washing curling and even blow drying. If you have a hair stylist in the family, this type of dull hair is the one that fares best. I normally attach the commercial weft to a cap, mating matching yarn and usually i used all making more hair yarn. I like that. The fuzzy whips of my hair help cover the sewn lines of weft around the doll's head. This technique is the one i shared with you via my pattern: big fig an e-book to make an 18-inch doll using weft for her hair. Of course, you could sew it to a butt wig cap made in stretchy fabric or sew it straight to the head. I normally shy away from those things, because i don't personally like the wig caps and i don't enjoy sewing commercial wefts straight to the head. The arrays of hairstyles you can achieve with commercial webs is quite astounding, you will never be bored and adults will keep requesting it. I will call this hairstyle an intermediate to advanced technique, as there are more considerations to take care of versus just making the moher yarn cap. First, you use two or three techniques to make the hair. You have to use yarn that matches the weft color. You have to ensure the dye from the weft doesn't bleed and you will have to contend with sewing a tidy final crown on the wig there's another technique in which you crochet the weft. As you build a cap. This is a technique i actually started using when i first encounter commercial wefts. I got away from it for many years due to unruly under hairs and odd looking hair lines, but i've now returned back to it with some good improvements to the technique. Of course, the final and most intensive techniques for making dull hair is using locks of fiber to create your very own wefts. I will definitely call this an advanced way of making dull hair, not only because you're now adding a level of complexity to the dull hair. You'Re increasing the time spent on making the hair quite severely depending on the fiber of choice. This could add anything from 5 to 15 hours or more. If you buy raw fiber raw fiber means it is coming to you straight from the animal and is the most economical option to purchase fiber, then you're going to need to sort it wash it recondition it brush it and sew it into wefts. First, you might even need to dye it as well, so if you really want to try to make your own wefts using locks, i recommend you at least give yourself a better fighting chance by purchasing ready to use fiber, one that is clean, sorted brushed tied in Neat little bundles and in the color you want to use it. It is more expensive to buy it this way, but you can get straight into sewing and then attach it to the door. I do sew hand may wave straight to the doll's head, sometimes, as the process is more enjoyable to me than dealing with the hard sewn root of the commercial ones, but you can equally attach them to the yarn cap, which is also a method. I use very often i've used countless fibers to make dull hair cereal, alpaca and apple loose alpaca in all shades and lengths. I'Ve used all manner of wool: fibers lester long wall, wensley, dale, cotswolf, tease, water, bluefest, leicester, scotland, bale black nose, rayfest gray, face dartmoor and, of course, mohair. I'Ve used them in their natural colors and i've also bought them dye in final bright colors or tie them myself, so you're ready to learn. Let me tell you some ways. I can help you if you're very interested in all things dull, hair. This year, i published an entire series on patreon going from preparing the raw fiber how to clean it and have it ready to dyeing it different, colors and making webs out of it. I also have many hair tutorials from previous years in patreon, which will become available to you as you join the doll making tier video learning is not your thing. I also have a pdf ebook. That shows you with step-by-step photos, how to process sure alpaca how to make the webs and then how to attach them to the doll's head. So, no matter your learning style there's bound to be a way for you to experience and practice how to make little hair. For your dolls, i've shared many free tutorials and a step process in the article mentioned at the beginning of this video, so be sure to check that one first, i spend an inordinate amount of time designing my dolls, making sure that the hair, the eye color the Skin fabric and the clothing fabrics i offer them are close to their personality. I know i work rather backwards because i know the soul of the doll first, i know her name and who she is, and only then can i start to design the outside. I know who the doll is and in chats with her or ham. I know, then, which style will be suitable to their character, which skin tone complements their life background, in which fabrics my soother personality and tell more of their story. Then i choose a technique for the jaw and have jolly fun while doing it. Dough making is an endless source of love, enjoyment and healing for me, and i hope you two get to practice it on a regular basis. My best wishes to you, as you tackled all hair for your next doll, and thank you so much for watching this video. I hope you find it useful.