Sell porcelain dolls

Internationally acclaimed artist, Patricia Schaerer, recently returned home to South Africa after more than two decades of extensive travel to enhance her doll-making skills. Amongst other fascinating commissions, Patricia created a large doll collection for Saudi Arabian Princess Nura during her travels - but has now chosen to combine her international experience with her own African roots. The result? The African Culture Doll Collection, an exquisite collection of original, hand made, Black African porcelain dolls who are already finding loving homes all over the world.
In addition to the beautiful dolls Patricia handcrafts herself, she also empowers and educates others to create their own doll in her popular doll-making workshops. There are many stages involved in creating a doll and the different processes can last anywhere between 3 weeks and 3 months.
Patricia has recently moved back home after 25 years of living abroad and gaining invaluable experience in doll making; she has now settled in Glencairn, Cape Town, overlooking the Indian Ocean.
She has created a doll for Operah Winfrey when she visited South Africa in June 2005. This is of course a dream come true to be able to make a doll for Operah.
At the moment there are 11 different types of dolls :
Nomsa
Xhosa word meaning - Graceful
The Traditional Magic Doll
Traditional healers and sangomas continue to flourish in both urban and rural settings in Africa. In a culture where the boundaries between fact and fantasy, medicine and magic, are blurred - and where the supernatural is completely accepted as a part of life, it is not surprising to find that the work of healers encompasses a wide spectrum of activities, ranging from the mundane to the miraculous. A healer will set a broken limb, but will with equal self-assurance supply a client with deadly magical medicine to be used against an enemy said to be sending ill luck or death to the home. He may dose an ailing patient with herbal medicine, which may have a beneficial effect, but almost certainly his diagnosis of the disease will take into account the displeasure of a dead relative or the machinations of a witch.
Name : Nomsamo ( xhosa - to try )
Size : 70 cm (27.5")
Porcelain parts : Head, shoulder plate, hands and feet
Body : Cloth and wire armature
Eyes : Hand painted
Fabric : African cotton
Hair : Traditional xhosa head gear
Jewelry : Hand beaded
Shoes : N/a