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Listed below are some excellent books & magazines to get you started: |
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LITTLE FINGERS & TRICKY TOES by Madeleine Sara Maddocks. If you find the idea of making fingered cloth doll hands daunting or difficult, then this book is for you! This illustrated, comb-bound volume retails at £12.95 and is available in the UK exclusively from Cloth Doll Creations. It contains tips and useful step by step information to enable you to make those fiddly little cloth figure wired hands and toed feet easily and effectively. Pattern templates included. CLICK HERE: To buy |
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CREATIVE CLOTH DOLL MAKING |
CREATIVE
CLOTH DOLL FACES CREATIVE
CLOTH DOLL COUTURE
CREATIVE
CLOTH DOLL BEADING
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Crafting
Cloth Dolls The book features instructions for ten fabric dolls created by well-know dollmaking artists (e.g. Barbara Chapman, Elise Peeples, and Brenda Gehl) and includes essentials such as creating the doll body, the face, hair and wigs, and costuming the doll. Complete with several full-scale templates, lesson plans, and a very informative resource selection.
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Making Creative Cloth
Dolls by Marthe La Van. This book features dolls and patterns for some really inspiring spirit style dolls. It takes you beyond typical cloth doll conceptions, inviting you to let your imagination run wild. It features thirty projects and three basic patterns.
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ANATOMY OF A DOLL DESIGNING
THE DOLL She has a number of other excellent books less specifically for cloth doll makers.
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DOLLS (UK) Very suited to beginners as well as the more experienced maker, since whilst the dolls are quite ‘rag doll’ in nature they are sophisticated & beautifully made with advanced cloth doll techniques. UK suppliers www.jan-horrox.com also |
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BOOK OF DOLL MAKING (UK) Alicia Merrett. Out of Print (available second hand) A comprehensive project book and reference to making traditional and innovative cloth & rag dolls. This book contains a wide variety of dolls to make including different styles and sizes of dolls as well as dolls made from diverse materials. Two of the best patterns within it are those submitted by Hilarie Berzins |
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http://theclothdoll.com/backissues.html http://www.scottpublications.com/sdamag/ http://www.stampington.com |