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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.

$25.00 - Qty: 

New!
CLOTH DOLLMAKING
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! 

$29.95 - Qty: 

New!

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! 

$19.95 - Qty: 

Doll Calender
Figurative Art Calendar 2008

Splendid collection of works by Martha Boers, Marianne Reitsma, Marilyn Radzat, Adele Sciortino and many more of the world’s best doll artists that will excite your imagination all year long.

$15.00 Qty: 

 


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!

TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE

$27.95 – 164 Pages - Qty: 


Lisa Hertzi

Art Doll Adventures
Exploring Projects and Processes
through Cultural Traditions

128 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.
$24.95 - Qty: 

DVDs by
Antonette Cely

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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!

$39.95 - Qty: 

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!

$39.95 - Qty: 


Books/DVD by
elinor peace bailey

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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.

$15.00 - Qty: 

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!
$30.00 - Qty: 

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.

$9.00 - Qty: 

Pick Pockets
Book
by elinor peace bailey

You have endless fun creating the 20 delightful wearables is this well-loved book.
$15.00 - Qty: 


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.

$24.99 - 128 pages - Qty: 

Creative Cloth Doll Beading


One bead at a Time
By Robin Atkins
Intended to both teach and inspire, this book will show you how beads, creativity, and healing are related. You will learn to stitch beads on fabric improvisationally, creating art work which is compelling, beautiful, fun, and satisfying to make. You will discover ways to break through the walls of doubt and criticism that prevent us from exploring our full artistic potential. 

$19.95 - Qty: 
One bead at a Time


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. 

$15.00 - Qty: 
Spirit Dolls

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! 

$24.99 - Qty: 
Creative Cloth Doll Couture

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! 

$25.00 - Qty: 

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. 

$24.95 - Qty: 

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. 

$9.50 - Qty: 


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.

$29.95 - 156 pages text and diagrams, 18 color plates - Qty: 



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.

$24.99 - 128 pages - Qty: 


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.

$12.50 - Qty: 

Booklet by Leslie Molen

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..

$8.00 - Qty: 


DVD by Leslie Molen

Adventures in Dollmaking with Leslie Molen

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!

$39.95 - Qty: 



Beading Basics
By Mary Stori

Beading Basics

Mary Stori presents a beading bonanza, bursting with everything you need to know for adding beaded embellishments to fabric surfaces.  Complete step-by-step instructions with detailed how-to photos will guide you through 30 beading stitches and techniques.  Advice on getting started, including equipment, supplies and stabilizers.  Even though it was written for quilters, the solid information in this book will inspire and enhance your doll making.

$14.95 - Qty: 

Needle Sculpting Cloth Doll Faces
By Virginia Robertson

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.

$25.00 - Qty: 

Little Stuff
By Virginia Robertson
A big, beautiful book filled with 21 different doll patterns collected by the Pin Ella P Doll Club. 

$17.50 - Qty: 

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". 

$25.00 - Qty: 

Dolls of the Art Deco Era, 1910-1940
by Susanna Oroyan 


Explore the fascinating world of Art Deco Dolls - from flappers and vamps, co-eds and clowns to beautiful bed dolls! You'll learn how to create your own Art Deco beauty through several delightful projects including Basic Bobbie and Betty the Bee's Knees, charming bed-doll dogs to keep them company, and tassel dolls to accessorize your home. Along with the rich history of dollmaking during this period you'll learn about collecting and restoring these marvelous figures.
128 pages.
$29.95 - Qty: 

Doll Making as a Transformative Process
by Pamela Hastings  

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.
$25.00 - Qty: 

Designing a Doll and Making Faces Inspiration Book
by Pamela Hastings  



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.

Temporarily Unavailable

$20.00 - Qty

Creative Cloth Doll Making
by Patti Medaris Culea 



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.

$24.99 - Qty: 

 

Showcase Doll!
Anja Asenjo
"Veronique"
Made by Holly Zarcone
Pattern found in Patti Culea's "Creative Cloth Doll Making."
Booklets by
Maggie Baggett
and
Jeannie Rigby


Draw & Cut & Pin & Tuck
Chock full of color photographs, this delightful 54 page book guides you through the exciting adventure of devising wonderful costumes (clothing - shoes and accessories) for your dolls. Another MUST HAVE for every doll maker's reference library. 

$15.00 - Qty: 

Creating Heads and Faces
How to Make Soft Doll and Animal Heads from Scratch Using 100% Cotton
This 27 page booklet helps you to understand how the fabric works, how stuffing makes things look and where to place the features so you can start designing your own dolls. 
$9.00 - Qty: 

Creating Character
How to Sculpt and Wire Soft Doll and Animal Heads Using 100% Cotton
Learn the sculpting and wiring techniques that give your dolls and animals character, dimension and animation. Once you master this you will not go back to plain doll and animal faces again. (24 pages). 
$9.00 - Qty: 

Creating Depth
How to Apply Face "Paint" to Soft Dolls and Animals
Learn to use a variety of coloring agents from paint to applique fabrics to give your dolls and animals depth and believability. (12 pages). 
$9.00 - Qty: 

Hairdo How To's
How to Create Hair Styles on Soft Dolls and Animals
This 18-page booklet explores the use of both traditional and non-traditional materials to finish your doll's head off with a bang! 
$9.00 - Qty: 

Bumbling Through Bodies
How To Design Bodies for Soft Dolls and Animals
A wonderful, comical, insightful journey from doodles on scratch paper to a completed body of your own design – with Maggie and Jeannie's guidance anyone can do it! (35 pages). 
$9.00 - Qty: 

Pamela's Paper Doll Inspiration Book
by Pamela Hastings  



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.
$25.00 - Qty: 

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.  
$21.95 - Qty: 

Books by
Susanna Oroyan


Finishing the Figure

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!

$28.95 - Qty: 

Designing the Doll
From Concept to Construction
160 pages

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.

$27.95 - Qty: 




Creating Faces CD - Version 2.0
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.

CD Only - $17.00 - Qty: 

 


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