Dana's Antique Doll Studio is a Seeley Doll Studio featuring the doll making and painting of modern dolls for beginner classes and antique reproduction of beautiful French and German dolls in advanced classes. Using a dust free waterbase technique.

Porcelain dollmaking is an art of leisure, a hobby, and a craft for collectors and enthusiast. It began in America by the efforts of Mildred Seeley, co-founder and former co-owner of Seeley's Ceramics in Oneonta, NY., during the late 1970's.

The root of porcelain dollmaking goes back 150 years to France and Germany, where at the time it was a very substantial industry. Now, with the availability of improved materials, techniques and clear instruction, porcelain dollmaking has grown to be one of the fastest expanding crafts of our time. You should know that dollmaking is as old as mankind, and that doll collecting is the second largest collector's hobby in the world.

In porcelain dollmaking we use the finest most exquisite of ceramic clay for the luxurious reproduction Antique dolls. It is also more than one craft, it encompasses the craft of sewing, dress designing, shoemaking, wig-making, and hat-making.

As a consequence of Porcelain Dollmaking it is never dull, always alive and vibrant. Become a dollmaker today, if I can learn to make and paint these Beautiful Dolls, you can too!