What is a ready-to-dress doll?
Ready to dress dolls are completely finished, with the exception of clothing and shoes. Most standing dolls, with the exception of ballerinas, also come with a metal display stand. Customers may choose wig and eye colors, and a wig style other than the one shown in the picture. Many dolls also have a choice of seated (bent) or standing legs. Unless listed as all porcelain, the dolls will come with a cloth body firmly stuffed with poly-fil, and will have a wire armature to provide support and posing flexibility. [Back To Top] • What is bisque, and what is the difference between blank and painted bisque? Bisque is made from porcelain greenware. Porcelain greenware is produced by pouring a slurry of porcelain material called slip into an artist’s mold, resulting in soft greenware body parts for a doll. The greenware parts are cleaned and smoothed before being fired in a high temperature kiln that hardens the greenware into porcelain bisque. At this point, it is blank porcelain bisque, rea
