You can learn to do it yourself.
Mold making is the key, the alchemy, of doll making.
When you set out to sculpt something, a face, for instance, you have two choices, essentially. The demonstration we are doing on these pages is the making of a plaster mold. Water based clay can also be used as the model for many other types of molds, latex, room temperature vulcanizing urethane, papier mach , etc. In our book, Mold Making for the Original Doll , the pictures are far more detailed, giving each individual step several photographs, all with captions, but these photographs in this abbreviated WWW demonstration are in color, and they will show up better on your computer monitor screen. When Ralph Gonzales first started making molds for his sculptures, and dolls, twenty years or so ago, there were no instructional materials available, and if other doll makers knew how to make molds, they kept the information to themselves.