Natural-Looking Cloth Hands 02HDW
Arley Berryhill Henderson, Nevada, U.S.A. - www.arleyberryhill.com

Thursday, May 10 - 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

This was a technique workshop, focused on making a natural-looking cloth hand. In the workshop students were taught a unique hand armature and stuffing technique to make more natural looking, feminine cloth hands

Arley Berryhill comes to doll making from studies in fashion history, design, costume and make-up, and a career in costuming and theatre. He has won several awards and has been published in magazines including Art Doll Quarterly. His beaded pieces have been shown in Seattle's art galleries. Arley lives in Las Vegas and works making and maintaining costumes for hotel shows. He takes great pleasure in teaching doll making and embellishment techniques.


Work begins


Hands taking shape


Jackie's hand


The class

Special thanks to Ruth Huggins for taking the photos of this class.

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Make sure you check out all the other workshops!

Natural Looking Cloth Hands | Faces | Fibre Collage Doll | Beautiful Butterflies | Let's Face It | Creating Charismatic Characters | Messengers and Storytellers | Facing Faces | The Dementia Fairy | Garden Party | Creating a Custom Mohair Wig | Sculpting a Woman Head | Rosebud Sprite | Peeking Pixies | Creative Costuming | Dragonfly Rider | Extreme Needle Sculpting | Creative Cloth Doll Design from Vision to Reality


Conference photography by M. Reitsma Design copyright2007