Jyh-Haur Yang



beautiful Asian designs and sophisticated detail are qualities of
Jyh-Haur Yang

and his dramatic dolls



Since I was a little boy, I saw my mother sewing clothes everyday. She designed and made dresses for customers. Life was so hard and I had to help my Mom. Naturally, I know how to sew, and how to design a dress. I was so interested in it, but my mother told me that if I went on this way, I would be empty, and get nothing when I was old!! She said, "Look at me, I design and make so many fashions. I am still so poor. I have to work everyday, so that we can only have enough food to eat." I didn't believe that! I really like to design! But nothing helped...


I could only study, study, study. And still, I never forgot what I used to love. I tried to read more books about fashion design and at that time, I started learning how to make doll figures with clay. In junior high school, an art teacher who was a good sculptor came to my life (how lucky I am) and she taught me a lot of techniques of sculpting! Then, I learned how to paint and something which was called "ART" in senior high school.


Finally, I went to a teacher college and majored in child literature. During this period, I wrote a lot of aricles and won several prizes of poems and child literature. But I never felt satisfied. One day, my English professor asked us to put on a drama in school day,and we work hard for that. But,there was a big problem... we didn't have costumes for our actors, and that was really trouble! At that time, it seemed a voice told me, You can make it!" I stood up and told everyone, "I can make the costumes!"


Yes, I returned to making clothes! And, they loved my designs! More and more school groups asked me to design costumes for them! Even my classmate who took part in the Taiwan "Miss Flower" beauty competition asked me to make an evening gown for her. It was my pleasure to do that. Then, I had my first fashion show before I graduated from teacher college. I finally knew what I really like and had to do! By the way, I met Barbie at that time, she is so beautiful and so different from the clay dolls I made before. I started to put on my designs on her, and that looks great! She is such a "little model" and what's the best is I don't have to change the dress size a lot of times and use a lot of clothes!


This is all of the story, and I think I will continue to make more and more artist dolls. They bring me huge amounts of joy, and I will treat them as super models. Thanks for listening to me and sharing my story. Let's build the doll dreams and make the most heartwarming dolls together!



Here's some of his work:




Chinese 5-Color Grape Goddess, I love her!!!

















Visit Jyh-Haur's website, located at http://www.geocities.com/jyh-haur/index2.htm
Email Jyh-Haur at jyh-haur@yahoo.com.tw
Click here to go back to Rebecca's Customized Doll Gallery...