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DOLLMAKERS JOURNEY
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Cloth Doll Artistry
by Barbara Willis
In this unique and beautiful book, beloved doll-designer Barbara Willis
guides readers through various approaches to doll design and basic and
advanced construction techniques. Through the creation of three complete
step-by-step projects with 200 photos and illustrations, readers will
develop color boards, learn to use vintage images, create both 2-dimensional
and 3-dimensional cloth dolls, learn sophisticated costuming techniques, and
gain knowledge of elaborate soft sculpting. A gallery shares the
inspirational work of several well-known doll artists who have created their
own versions of each project. Complete patterns and templates are included.
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New Book!
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The World of the Doll Artist
DVD
This enriching and informative DVD explores the passion and the creative
process of doll making through interviews with six of the most critically
acclaimed doll artists in America today - Olga Roehl, Shelly Thornton, Gail
Lackey, Nancy Wiley, Jodi and Richard Creager, and Reina Mia Brill. Listen
and learn as they discuss their inspiration, approach to craft, and design
techniques. Viewers will get a first look at the latest work of these
amazing artisans through up-close and vivid photography. Special Features
include Doll Artists' Design Techniques, Photo Gallery and more. The World
of the Doll Artist is an inspiring film for doll artists and doll
enthusiasts alike.
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Newest DVD!
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Figurative Art Calendar 2009
Splendid collection of works by Lisa Lichtenfels, Arley Berryhill, Ankie
Daanen, Annie Hesse, Martha Boers &, Marianne Reitsma, Adele Sciortino and
many more of the world's most awesome doll artists that will excite your
imagination all year long.
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Creative Cloth Explorations
By Patti Culea
Patti covers all the basics and shares cutting-edge techniques while
teaching you how to create a flat-figure doll, a memory journal with
embellished cloth pages and an exquisite fabric fan. Learn how to transfer
images to silk and organza, create appliquéd and beaded embellishments, use
oil paint sticks and stencils, work with silk rods and waste and much, much
more! A gallery of projects from other leading artists will delight and
inspire you. This beautiful book will be a tremendous tool for sharpening
and expanding your creative skills.
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Face Painting Workshop CD
By Kat Lees
Kat Lees combines her love of doll making and decorating in this
comprehensive six lesson (plus a bonus!) course. You'll learn all the ins
and outs of drawing, placing and painting the facial features while creating "Fiona Blue" - an exquisite doll bust pillow - and much, much more.
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Making Gourd Dolls and Spirit Figures
By Ginger Summit and Jim Widess
Packed with images of dolls from a variety of cultures and eras, this
incredible hard cover book will guide you expertly through how to choose a
gourd, mold one as it's growing, clean it properly and safely, pyrograph and
sculpt faces, create movable joints, and make such creatures as a simple,
limbless Stump Doll; beaded Zulu doll; endearing Hobgoblin; and stacked
Mother and Daughter dolls as well as inspire your cloth doll making.
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Dollmaking for the First Time
By Miriam Gourley
Cloth dolls and wooden dolls; life-size figures and those as small as
clothespins; dolls as ornaments and a complete set of dolls that's just like
a miniature family: oh, what a beautiful doll you can make with this
well-illustrated guide at your side. It teaches the basics, from preparing
the patterns to painting the face and styling the hair. The techniques
unspool in an easy-to-follow question and answer form-How do I make a simple
cloth doll? How do I make a doll with button-on joints?-accompanied by a
project. Above all, every page encourages you to break the rules, use your
imagination, and find ways of making each doll special.
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Cloth Dolls for Textile Artists
By Ray Slater
In this lavishly illustrated hard cover book you’ll find step-by-step instructions and patterns for three key doll styles – stump dolls, wire dolls and stuffed cloth dolls – plus a wealth of innovative textile techniques. Explore beading, hand embroidery, machine embroidery, stamping, dyeing, felting and even quilting for embellishing your doll to make it your own.
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Immerse yourself in this magnificent collection of dolls from the world’s most talented doll artists. Presented with skillful realism to provocative surrealism, you’ll find inspiration on every page as you view each unique creation made from every conceivable material including cloth, polymer clay, wood, felt and other fibers, ceramic, porcelain, gourds, beads, wire work, papier-mâché, resin and every day items. You’ll never tire of pouring through the 396 pages of this incredible book!
TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE
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Printing Faces on Fabric CD
By Kat Lees
Discover the secrets of transferring painted faces or photos to fabric in
this comprehensive tutorial that will expand your face making options.
Fiddly Little Fingers & Tricky Toes CD
By Madeleine Maddocks
The excellent tips and useful step-by-step information on this fantastic CD will have you making those wired finger hands and toed feet easily and effectively. You'll also find a wealth of background information on preparation, suitable fabrics, tools and illustrated do's and don'ts. As a BONUS you'll receive complete instructions for the blissful "Pampered Polly" (Pictured Below) with her perfectly manicured fingers and toes.
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Pampered Polly
Creating Faces with Chalk CD
By Kat Lees
Shading and blending color is a breeze when you learn the secrets of using
chalks to create beautiful faces. Kat's detailed step-by-step instruction
and over 60 photos will guide you expertly through the process.
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Watercolor Faces CD
By Sherry Goshon
Sherry partnered with Kate Erbach to produce this updated and beautifully
enhanced version of her popular Creating Watercolor Pencil Faces book.
You'll find lots of valuable extra material to further your face making
skills on this terrific CD.
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The Doll as Messenger CD
Guiding you on your creative journey with 86 pages of photos, drawings and insights elinor gives you 10 amazing patterns to play with for exploring the body’s language.
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Wing It
By Virginia Robertson
You’ll find a ton of ideas for creating the perfect wings for your fairies, angels and other mythical creatures in this well written book. Among the many techniques presented you’ll learn shadow appliqué, machine appliqué, wire armatures, fabric painting and quilting. Several sizes and styles of wing patterns are included for your use.
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Heart to Hands Bead Embroidery:
by Robin Atkins
This beautiful book with 84 color photographs is for beaders, fiber artists,
quilt makers and anyone interested in developing their own unique artistic
voice. Here you'll find pictures, inspirations, project ideas, techniques
and tips to make your bead embroidery distinctive, appealing and fun! Learn
how to tell your heart's stories with beads. Try 20 new stitch techniques
for making spiral shells, ruffles, wildflowers, roots, barnacles and other
exciting forms and textures.
7 Virtues – Illusion Costuming for the Creative Doll Maker
by Sherry Goshon
Through the creation of SEVEN different dolls from the same basic pattern pieces you will learn a fantastic array of costuming techniques that will take your dollmaking to an exciting new level. From decoupaging tissue or hand made paper to form a bodice to draping and ruching a variety of fabrics and fibers you’ll achieve glorious results with a minimum of effort. A flat face head is included but the “Chantal” or “Virtue” molds may be used if you prefer a clay face.
CLOTH DOLLMAKING:
Theory and Practice
By Antonette Cely
Perfect for dollmakers of all skill levels, this fabulous spiral-bound book takes you through the process of creating beautiful cloth dolls from simple Christmas Tree Angels through the complex “20th Century Nude.” The pages are filled with clear diagrams and text, explaining Antonette's techniques in a precise and very understandable manner. The most comprehensive treasure trove of dollmaking skills you should learn on the market!
Focus on Faces 2 CD
Each of the 14 faces on this CD comes in two formats – flat face and center seam – to give you endless creative possibilities. Thorough instruction and lots of color photos will guide you expertly through the face coloring and shading process. A great bonus body pattern is included with a variety of clothing suggestions. A must have for your reference library!
Crafting Cloth Dolls
By Miriam Gourley
This fabulous collection of fabric dolls provides step-by-step directions for making ten exquisite creations that represent an incredible range of styles, from primitive folk art to exotic sculpted work. Miriam will instruct you on everything you need to know to create original dolls--how to form the body, paint the face, make and style the hair, and costume the doll. Patterns feature designs by top artists, including Barbara Chapman, Elise Peeples, and Brenda Gehl, and by many talented newcomers. The dolls are arranged by skill level, so you will find it easy to choose a pattern that suits your tastes and ability. With more than one hundred glorious full-color photographs of cloth dolls and detailed drawings throughout, these pages are bursting with creative inspiration for those starting their first doll or their fiftieth!
Art Doll Adventures
Exploring Projects and Processes
through Cultural Traditions128 Pages
Using history as a starting point, Lisa-Li Hertzi has created five exciting doll projects, inspired by five very different cultural and historical icons/figures. Through the projects she explores the creative process, the meaning and significance of each figure, and teaches techniques that doll makers are currently experimenting with: journaling, collage, mixed media and found objects. Each doll is presented as a step-by-step project with complete instructions, and is followed by a gallery featuring interpretations by leading doll artists of the same cultural figure. Fantastic full color illustrations and patterns by the author are included.
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Customizing Doll Patterns
DVD
by Antonette Cely In her first video, NIADA doll artist Antonette Cely shares all the secrets of customizing doll patterns so you can make the cloth doll of your dreams! This 88 minute DVD will expertly teach you how to take any pattern, even one you've created yourself, and accurately alter it to fit any pose!
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Making Faces
DVD
by Antonette Cely In her second DVD, Antonette Cely will show you how to create beautiful faces for your cloth doll using her technique of a "cloth-covered mask." To start, you'll sculpt a face, then make a two-piece press mold. Next she'll show you how to bake the face, then cover it with fabric, paint and finish it. Top the whole thing off with making a wig, and you'll have a lovely head for your cloth doll! The techniques Antonette teaches apply to more than just cloth dolls, so order today and start MAKING FACES!
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Let’s Face It
Book
by elinor peace bailey Solid insight and creative direction abound in this classic face making book. Learn the techniques for creating fabulous expressions for dolls in any style from cartoonish characters to more realistic figures.
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Doll Making Basics
DVD
by elinor peace bailey
From basics such as tools needed, fabric/trim selection, construction of doll, stuffing, sculpting, face painting and much more, this NEW DVD contains everything that elinor has learned about doll making over the past 30 years. Included are 2 1/2 hours of information and instruction on 2 DVD discs. You’ll feel just like you are sitting with her in her studio! |
Big Fat Hairy Deal
Book
by elinor peace bailey, Bonnie Hoover and Sally Lampi 101 Ways to do hair! Endless inspiration from three terrific designers.
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Pick Pockets
Book
by elinor peace bailey
You have endless fun creating the 20 delightful wearables is this well-loved book. |
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Creative Cloth Doll Beading
By Patti Medaris Culea
In this sensational new book Patti and beading experts Anne Hesse and Laura McCabe illustrate new ways of using various bead techniques to embellish the cloth doll. Sections include the basics of beadwork, beaded flowers for her hair, bead embroidered faces, starbursts (using crystals to enhance the figure), and wings and things (creating wings, crowns, and shoes with beads). Each chapter presents a different type of beading application in detail, with full instructions. Techniques are highlighted with step-by-step photos. A gallery of interpretations of the same pattern by leading artists is included for further inspiration. Patterns for one cloth doll along with diagrams and complete instructions for head-to-toe beading techniques are included.
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Spirit Dolls
By Robin Atkins
This book includes three full-sized patterns, complete and easy-to-follow instructions, detailed photos, drawings, and tips to design and create your own unique beaded spirit dolls. Make spirit dolls as special gifts to yourself and your loved ones for celebrations, healing, guidance, remembering, protection, or friendship and love. Color pictures of fourteen different dolls by Robin will give you lots of ideas.
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Creative Cloth Doll Couture
By
Patti Medaris Culea
Learn how to make exotic and beautiful garments and accessories for art dolls. Patti will guide you through decorative fabric treatments and embellishments, along with dyeing, painting and stamping to create a beautiful evening gown and much more as well as teach you how to expertly drape a doll body to create your own pattern. Truly, a treasure trove of ideas and techniques!
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Creating Watercolor Pencil Faces
with Sherry Goshon
By
Sherry Goshon
This wonderful spiral-bound workbook walks you step-by-step with colored drawings through the creation of five distinct faces -Caucasian Adult, Caucasian Child, African American, Asian and Hispanic. Using layers of colored pencils, Sherry teaches you how to achieve a three dimensional look on flat faces. A terrific tool for advancing your face making skills!
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Between the Sheets
By Alysn Midgelow-Marsden
Extraordinary exploration of the wonders of working with Angelina Fibers. Detailed explanations, inspirational ideas, step-by-step projects and an artists' gallery of fabulous photos will lead you on exciting adventure with this amazing fiber that can be spun, woven, layered, trapped, bonded etc. Its applications in textile art, embroidery, paper making, papier mache, modeling, card and candle making are endless.
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Making Faces
By Virginia Robertson
This classic 34 page booklet is packed with a wide variety of faces - from cartoon-like to very realistic - for you to copy along with solid instruction from Virginia.
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Embeadery: Using Classic Embroidery Stitches in Beadwork
By
Margaret Ball
All you need to make dazzlingly beautiful works of bead embroidery is a handful of beads, a beading needle, thread, and a firm fabric to apply the beads to. You'll learn to add rhythm, texture, pattern, and excitement to your work by using the remarkable diagrams and photographs in this exquisite book.
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Creative Cloth Doll Faces
By
Patti Culea
The face is the most important feature of a doll-it is also the most challenging. With Patti's thorough step-by-step approach, readers will learn how to use watercolor pencils, acrylics, and fabric paints to color a face, how to create a face using collage techniques as well as stamping and beading, and tips for working with stretchy fabrics to create indented eyes, separate eyelids, sculpted lips and much more.
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CD by Leslie Molen
Needlesculpting in Cloth CD
This CD version is a complete lesson with 19 detailed color photos to guide you to a beautifully sculpted face with eyes open or closed. Includes bonus face painting instructions.
Booklet by Leslie Molen
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How to Do Needlesculpting in Cloth Booklet
This updated and revised booklet will help you to have a proper understanding of feature location and teach you a variety of stitches to achieve the look you want with eyes open or closed. A head pattern is included for you to learn as you go..
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DVD by Leslie Molen
Adventures in Dollmaking with Leslie Molen
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This needlesculpting DVD guides you through selecting the best tools and fabrics to overlaying and painting a needlesculpted head. Watch the head transform and come alive with these detailed techniques!
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Needle Sculpting Cloth Doll Faces
By Virginia Robertson
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Packed with color photos, this book walks you step-by-step through face sculpting and painting using a variety of doll making materials including several kinds of knits and woven fabric. Special attention is given to drawing dark doll faces. A wonderful basic doll pattern is included along with a step-by-step tutorial on finger turning. No question about it – this book is a MUST HAVE for your reference library.
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Little Stuff
By Virginia Robertson
A big, beautiful book filled with 21 different doll patterns collected by the Pin Ella P Doll Club.
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The Fairy Book
By Virginia Robertson and Friends
This whimsical book presents delightful creatures from a variety of designers complete with patterns and stories! Dolls vary from 5" to 14".
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Doll Making as a Transformative Process
by Pamela Hastings
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Extraordinary 100-page book that includes 24 contributions from people who have used doll making for personal transformation, healing, changing relationships to changing the world. Pamela includes basic patterns and a wealth of pictures and ideas to guide you through using dollmaking for transformation. A book that will truly move and inspire you.
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Designing a Doll and Making Faces
Inspiration Book
by Pamela Hastings
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This
60-page book includes many pictures and inspirations
to help you design your own doll. Included is a photo
transfer on fabric so you can make one of Pamela Hasting's
patterns and a full color gallery of some of her dolls.
As you read you will be given a set of exercises to
complete which will help spark your creativity in diverse
areas such as shape, color, theme, found objects, pattern
design, construction techniques, etc. Treat yourself
to this very special addition to your dollmaking library.
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Creative Cloth Doll Making
by Patti Medaris Culea
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This
unique 128-page book enables readers to take inspiration
from top contemporary designers—right from
home. The premise is as original as it is fun: renowned
designers such as Julie McCullough, Barbara Chapman,
Barbara Evans, Annie Hesse, Jane Coughlan, Lynne
Butcher, Barbara Willis, and others use 1 of the
3 simple patterns provided in the book to make a
doll. Readers are able to look over the shoulder
of the author, and of each designer, as she fashions
her own unique creation. Crisp text, detailed illustrations,
and color photos take readers step by step through
the creative process. The end result - a wide array
of amazingly different dolls made from 3 simple
patterns - inspires doll makers to try out new techniques
to fashion their own one-of-a-kind creations.
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Showcase Doll!
Made by Holly Zarcone
Pattern found in Patti Culea's "Creative Cloth Doll Making."
Pamela's Paper Doll Inspiration Book
by Pamela Hastings
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The Third Edition of this marvelous book contains 60 pages of patterns and ideas for making your own paper dolls, and encouragement for discovering your own unique creative gifts. The new edition has 20 additional pages of projects and four color pages of inspiration from Pamela and other paper doll artists. There are also two extra patterns, a sheet of images to use in your own work, and a new art paper doll made by Pamela.
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Focus on Faces
by Barb Keeling
This
comprehensive workbook has over 75 fabulous face designs
to trace or copy. In addition, there are 28 separate
eyes and mouth designs that you can combine to create
your own unique faces. Each face is illustrated with
complete shading information to guide you through the
process. This MUST HAVE reference book includes complete
supply lists, directions for enlarging or reducing any
design and basic face sculpting instruction.
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Books
by
Susanna
Oroyan
Covering
everything from pattern drafting and costuming basics
to settings,
photography
and beyond with 300 color photos to delight your
creative fancy.
Learn
how to use elements of design to enhance your figure's
presentation
and
reflect your own style. An absolute must for
every
dollmaker's
reference library!
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Expanding
on concepts presented in Anatomy of a Doll, Susanna
offers a wide variety of construction methods for
advancing your dollmaking skills with this in-depth
guide. She introduces you to her concept of "imaginative
engineering" with a collection of design directions
and technical processes that will help your ideas
translate into reality. More than 250 full-color
photos of dolls from 130 of the world's top doll
artists.
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Just
like a book, only better! Version 2.0 allows instant
navigation through the book and the ability to zoom in on
more than 100 COLOR photos. Newly added BONUS chapter
includes more than 75 step-by-step pictures for coloring each
sculpted head.
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