Artists can pick different brands to best suit the doll they wish to create. The most basic form of the process involves taking a vinyl doll, adding multiple hand painted layers of paint, and adding other physical features to the doll. Reborning involves numerous time-consuming steps. Depending on craftsmanship, they range in price from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Reborn dolls are primarily purchased online but are available at fairs. Since then, an industry and community surrounding reborn dolls has emerged. The hobby of creating reborn baby dolls began in the early 1990s when doll enthusiasts wanted more realistic dolls. Reborn dolls are also known as lifelike dolls or reborn baby dolls. The process of creating a reborn doll is referred to as reborning and the doll artists are referred to as reborners. Vinyl doll kit shown side by side (unpainted parts & painted 'reborn' doll on cloth body)Ī reborn doll is a hand made art doll created from a blank kit or a manufactured doll that has been completely transformed by an artist to resemble a human infant with as much realism as possible.
