Doll maker
Also called dollmaker, doll repairer, wooden dollmaker
Doll makers design, create and repair dolls using various materials such as porcelain, wood or plastic. They build moulds of forms and attach parts using adhesives and handtools.
What you'd do
Sewing, embroidery and related workers · ILO- Repairing defective or damaged portion of cloth or garment by hand, using matching thread and needle
- Removing stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades
- Selecting thread according to specifications or colour of parts or dyeing thread to match colour and shade of cloth to be darned
- Patching holes, sewing tears and ripped seams, or darning defects in items, using needles and thread
- Pulling knots to the wrong sides of garments, using hooks
- Trimming ends with scissors to make mended portion look uniform with pattern of cloth
- Sewing ornamental designs by hand over stamped, printed or stencilled patterns on fabric using needle and coloured thread
- Embroidering ornamental designs on cloth by hand or machine using needle and coloured threads
- Softening leather or shoe material with water to prepare it for sewing
- Sewing or gluing decorative trimmings to articles, such as hats, caps or millinery
- Hand-sewing umbrella covers to frames, tacking cover to ribs along seams, sewing corners to tip of rib and sewing ties to outside of cover to hold umbrella when folded
- Fabricating and assembling thick cloth, canvas and similar materials into sails, awning, tarpaulins and tents
- Indoors
- On your feet most of the day
- Some contact with people, mostly with colleagues
- Some freedom to decide
- Often more than 40 hours a week
- Deadlines most weeks
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
Below averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,000 a month (Bulgaria) to €4,800 (Denmark), before tax.
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Among craft and related trades workers in the EU, women earn 26% less per hour than men. Craft and related trades workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training is the usual route.
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Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.12 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 12 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for sewing, embroidery and related workers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).