What are some methods for attaching doll hair to sculpy doll heads? I'm just getting started with dolling, so advice is appreciated!|||Try using a skinny numbered crochet hook... the metal ones. Take strands of hair... a small section of them at a time and twice as long as you want them. Prepoke a hole with the hook into the head of the doll and then put some craft glue that dries clear into that hole and fold the hair in half over the hook and drive it into the hole. Carefully twist the hook out so that the hair stays in the hole and let it dry. You can continue all over the doll head making the holes a few centimeters apart until you cover the pattern for her head that you wish it to look like. Then let it all dry overnight and brush the hair the next day. Be sure you get enough glue in the hole so that all the strands going into that hole are held in the glue.|||There are various ways to do that by using clay or by using hair or other fibers in some way or other. One very realistic way to use fibers is to embed small groups of strands into a raw polymer clay head one at a time (with a cut-off needle eye), then bake, for example. But there are many other ways too.
Instead of trying to explain them all, just check out this one of the sculpting pages at my polymer clay "encyclopedia" site which deals with hair:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/sculpting_鈥?/a>
(...click on HAIR, then scroll down to Clay hair or Fiber hair, etc.)
HTH,
Diane B.
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