Materials & craft
What she is made of,
and why it matters.
A doll is a stack of choices. Compound, frame, finish, dressing — each one decides how she ages over ten years. The cheap version of each layer fails differently, and predictably. Here is what we use and what we do not.
01 · Compound
Platinum-cure silicone.
We cast in platinum-cure silicone, the same compound family used in medical implants and prosthetics. It is more expensive than tin-cure, and roughly five times the cost of TPE. In return: no plasticiser bleed, no yellowing in normal light, no detectable smell, and a service life measured in decades rather than years.
02 · Why not TPE
Cheap warmth, short life.
Thermoplastic elastomer feels warmer at first touch and costs a fifth as much. It also weeps oil after eighteen months, stains permanently with dark dye, and tears at the joints where silicone only marks. Useful for entry models. Not what we make.
03 · Skin colour
Pigmented in the mould.
Skin tone is mixed into the liquid silicone before casting, not painted on after. Surface paint can be polished off; mould-mixed pigment cannot. The face, areolae and lip blush are applied by hand afterwards with silicone-safe paints, sealed in clear silicone.
04 · Skeleton
Steel spine, articulated joints.
A stainless-steel armature runs from skull to pelvis with stainless ball joints at the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee and ankle. Fingers and toes have annealed copper wire bones — they hold pose and survive being bent thousands of times. A budget skeleton uses aluminium, which fatigues in two years.
05 · Hair
Implanted, not glued.
The wig is implanted strand by strand into a flexible silicone cap, the same method used for medical hair systems. Glued wigs come off with humidity. Implanted hair can be brushed, washed and styled — within reason.
06 · Eyes
Hand-painted acrylic, replaceable.
Each iris is painted in five layers on the underside of a clear acrylic dome, then sealed. Eyes swap in under a minute — every order ships with one extra pair so you can change them when you please.
07 · Costume
Sewn at the same bench.
The artist who paints the face also dresses the doll. We do not factory-stitch on a separate line. Fabrics are chosen for low dye transfer and washed three times before fitting; trims are placed where they will not dig into silicone.
08 · Quality control
One person signs off.
A single inspector handles the whole final check — face symmetry, joint range, costume fit, fingerprint test. The same person signs the certificate and packs the crate. If a defect is missed, we know whose checklist to revisit.
Choose what to ignore.
Most of this is invisible until year two or year five. That is the point. We pay for the layer no one sees so the one you do see lasts.
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