Quick Guide on Choosing the Right Doll Skin Fabric

As we can see you all set to get started with doll making process; however you don’t know how to figure out the best, suitable doll skin fabric, here goes a little help on your way. Let us tell you the variations between most common doll skin fabrics used commonly; and you won’t believe, there’s an ocean of choices for colors, shops and retailers online as well as offline.

Some of you may even get paralyzed by the numbers of choices available in skin tone; while some of you already have a few dolls under your belt, yet would prefer trying variant colors, and but ambiguous about how they’ll actually look on dolls. Let us demonstrate you how each fabric has its individual characteristic with all colors they come in:

The two most preferably-used and widely-known brands in doll skin fabric are De Witte Engel and Laib Yala. While the former one is manufactured in Netherlands, the latter one is from Switzerland. Since both of these popular and mostly used doll skin fabrics are European-made, they guarantee premium quality and certification under EN71, which means these fabrics are totally fine to make dolls for children since their dyes are safe to children’s skin.

Today, there are certain variances in appearance and weight in both the fabrics. We won’t go into any super technical break-down; we will rather try and be useful with simple bird-eye-view of what a fabric does.

Let’s just begin by saying that both of these fabrics are 100% cotton, i.e. natural and they are incredibly durable with low-pill action. Now, what does this ‘low-pill action’ mean? This mandates that the doll will look good and it won’t be fuzzy skin for some year before the owner shows much wear. Just imagine how your favourite cardigan starts looking a few years after.

There are different fabrics having different standards for soft toys; which can have an impact on the robustness of the toy and experiences of playing by the owner. The followings are some basic and quick tips on how to selection the right doll skin Fabric NSW from a store:

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