Zelma Bride

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Emily Hart, Grandmaster of Dollmaking, winner of over 50 International awards, Canada's Top Trophy and many Best of Show Rosettes creating Masterfully since 1990.

Presenting: A “One of a kind” doll, entirely made by Emily Hart, including all porcelain parts & cloth body, the doll completed in 1995, however, the costume was not completed until 2024.

Here you have a rare opportunity to get one of my very finest modern dolls.

This doll was a “Cover Girl” in the May, 2002 issue of Doll Costuming Magazine in her green silk dress.

I did not love the blonde wig on her so I changed it…

I wanted to give her a second dress and over a couple of years, it evolved into a bridal gown as you see here.

This doll was made from the “Zelma” mold set of head, shoulderplate, lower arms, lower legs, with cloth body, originally sculpted by Roelie Broeksma-Muller and the molds made by Seeley’s.

This doll was poured in Seeley’s “Lady White” porcelain with wonderful China painting in many layers with firings in between, featuring “dimensional painting”, she has hand-blown solid glass paperweight eyes in green color made by Heiko of Germany.

She wears a necklace of Genuine Swarovski Crystals, and earrings of hand made Murano glass from Italy.

Her body is strong 100% cotton muslin, and arms have wire armature inside so they can be slightly bent at the elbows, hips, and knees. I made this doll two inches taller than the original Zelma.

I made a stunning full-length dress of high-quality pure silk Dupioni and lined the bodice with the same fabric. This is a pattern I designed and drafted up myself. I used very fine Guipure laces and added Genuine Swarovski crystals into the laces. The sleeve and bodice laces were carefully cut out from the wide lace and hand-sewn in place. This was a tremendous amount of work to make this dress. Her unique belt was days in the making itself with hand-made silver trim over joined together laces and added crystals. The back of the belt is sequined and beaded roses motif.

I had to design a veil that would not hide the back detail of the dress, so I used an embroidered net lace and added more clear and AB Swarovski crystals into the flowers on the lace.

To compliment this extraordinary dress, I made her DELUXE undies in pure cotton fine embroidered Batiste fabric and trimmed them in French laces. Her undergarments consist of full petticoat and bloomers. All seams are French.

She has white patent vinyl Mary-jane style shoes.

This doll stands 27 inches tall.