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Listed below are some excellent books & magazines to get you started:

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FIDDLY 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.
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CREATIVE CLOTH DOLL MAKING Patti Culea’s exciting book is a must for all cloth doll makers. Patti has created 3 new patterns for this book which you can mix and match. Patti also covers dyeing, painting, stamping and many other techniques.	CREATIVE CLOTH DOLL FACES by Patti Culea. Shows you in more detail how to make unique cloth doll faces. CREATIVE CLOTH DOLL COUTURE by Patti Culea All about costuming your doll CREATIVE CLOTH DOLL BEADING by Patti Medaris Culea How to embellish your cloth figures with beads
	Crafting Cloth Dolls by Miriam Christensen Gourley 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.
	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.
	ANATOMY OF A DOLL The fabric sculptors hand book. Full of examples from many doll artists. Susanna Oroyan. DESIGNING THE DOLL Advance your doll making skills. Over 250 photographs. Susanna Oroyan She has a number of other excellent books less specifically for cloth doll makers.
	CLOTH DOLLS (UK) Brenda Brightmore has been making dolls all her life and is a member of the BDA. This book brings together 15 of her cloth dolls and contains patterns and numerous step by step line drawings. All her patterns are shown full size with templates for face painting. 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 www.creative-crafts-needlework.co.uk
	THE 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

MAGAZINES

http://theclothdoll.com/backissues.html
The Cloth Doll magazine. Now an 'online' magazine.

http://www.scottpublications.com/sdamag/Soft Dolls and Animals Magazine

http://www.stampington.com
Art Doll Quarterly
144-page publication dedicated to the art doll. While the focus of the magazine will be on cloth dolls,
dolls of mixed and new media are also included.

http://www.mymags.com/moreinfo.php?itemID=6066
Country Marketplace Magazine
For all crafters. Cloth dolls and patterns

http://www.dollmagazine.com/ Doll Magazine A magazine for all sorts of dolls which occasionally has some articles on cloth dolls. Now bi-monthly. Doll Crafter A magazine for all sorts of dolls