Author: Ray SlaterPublisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 1781263442
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Cloth Doll Workshop
Author: elinor peace baileyPublisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1610594037
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Three leading dolls artists share doll-making techniques, as well as step-by-step instructions to creating beautiful dolls of your own. Patti Culea, elinor peace bailey, and Barbara Willis are three of the leading doll artists and teachers in the country. They are also friends. Each of these artists has her own distinct approach to the design and development of a cloth figure. In this book, each artist’s process will come alive through their choice of fabrics, sketches, simple patterns, and skill-building variations. The book is oriented toward beginning doll makers but offers unique variations and embellishments to please even more experienced doll designers. Two introductory chapters cover basic materials and techniques. Each artist’s chapter includes step-by-step illustrations, instructions, and patterns to make a complete doll, plus variations that create completely new figures. Readers are treated to full color photography and a look inside of each artist’s workspace. A gallery of additional creations by each artist, along with commentary on each work completes the collection. This is a must-have book for any aspiring or experienced doll making.
Make Cloth Dolls
Author: Terese CatoPublisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607051613
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Create dolls with personality from head to toe with tips from the self-taught artist, weaver, woodworker, and author of Needle Felting. A step-by-step visual guide to making a lighthearted and charming collectible for the doll-lovers you know! Bring these endearing characters to life with patterns you can personalize for a chef, gardener, knitter, mother, scrapbooker, shopper, or lover of all things handmade. Learn face-painting techniques that make each doll unique. Create four types of cloth dolls—three sculpted and one rag doll. Beginner-friendly project instructions include templates for the body and clothing, as well as suggestions for hair and accessories. Mix and match patterns and poses to create an unlimited number of dolls with your own flair. Inspirational gallery included.
My Rag Doll
Author: Corinne CrasbercuPublisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 1446367495
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Sew super-cute rag dolls and their gorgeous clothes—perfect for personalized presents! Start with one basic doll sewing pattern—which you can then alter to personalize your doll’s coloring and hairstyle. Then choose from a range of fabulous themed outfits and accessories to complete your uniquely charming doll—including a ballerina doll, a bride doll, a bedtime doll, and a fairy doll. All instructions are suitable for intermediate to experienced sewers and include full-sized templates for the doll, clothes, and accessories.
Cloth Dolls
Author: Brenda BrightmorePublisher:
ISBN: 9781870586528
Category : Cloth dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This book brings together a range of Brenda's dolls complete with patterns and numerous step-by-step line drawings. Every process is shown in detail from cutting patterns to painting faces. Her experience in adult education ensures that even absolute beginners will be able to create their own special 'Brenda Brightmore' dolls.
Creative Cloth Doll Making
Author: Patti Medaris CuleaPublisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 9781564969422
Category : Cloth dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A guide to dollmaking covers the basic techniques, working with embellishments, creating faces, and making the body, and includes three doll patterns with interchangeable parts.
Cloth Dollmaking
Author: Antonette CelyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780972968102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Cloth Dollmaking is more than a collection of patterns and instructions, it is a complete course in the craft of creating cloth dolls. Author Antonette Cely, a world-renowned cloth doll artist, takes the aspiring dollmaker all the way from making a simple felt Christmas tree angel to a detailed and realistic 20th Century adult female figure.Conveniently packaged in a ring binder, the reader can add notes, magazine clippings and additional materials as their work progresses. Cloth Dollmaking is perfect for beginners and experienced dollmakers alike.
Introduction to Making Cloth Dolls
Author: Jan HorroxPublisher:
ISBN: 9781844484584
Category : Cloth dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
General how-to instructions follow, emphasizing the actual crafting of two different types of hands and faces, well illustrated with color photographs. Tips, some helpful, some not-so, are scattered throughout in shaded boxes, ranging from a reminder to craft both right and left feet to the steps of sewing the ladder stitch. Then the dolls debut, each with a second variation.
Cloth Doll Faces
Author: Ray SlaterPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782213074
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover techniques and ideas to creating cloth faces filled with personality and fun in this book by leading international dollmaker and textile artist, Ray Slater. Leading international dollmaker and textile artist, Ray Slater, reveals her secrets to creating faces in cloth filled with vibrancy and dynamism. The face is the most important and challenging part of a cloth doll, bringing life and personality to the character. Conceived as being the hardest part of the making process, creating the face is, in fact, easy to do and an enjoyable, creative part of the making a cloth figure. Just by following a few simple rules a whole world of wonderfully expressive, fun characters can be created. This book will show every stage of how to create personality-packed faces, taking you from the initial inspiration sources, the design and drawing process, to the final colouring, sewing and embellishment of the head. Using just three basic face designs - flat, three-dimensional and collaged - Ray will show you how to create a fantastic collection of characters, giving tips on how to adjusting their proportions, hues and positioning of the features to make a whole host of faces with different looks and expressions. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions break down the process of making each kind of face, as well as tips on little adjustments you can make to create your own unique doll. In addition, discover helpful galleries of eyes, noses and mouths to inspire you and provide further ideas for how to bring more personality to your doll's face. Finally, Ray has shared two body patterns in her book to suit all three head types, so that you have the opportunity to develop the character of your dolls completely. Each body is fully demonstrated with clear photographs and detailed stage-by-stage instructions, and body templates are included for you to easily recreate in the comfort of your home. Brimming with ideas and practical advice on, this is an invaluable companion to cloth doll makers everywhere, whatever your skill.
Creative Cloth Doll Beading
Author: Patti Medaris CuleaPublisher: Quarry
ISBN: 9781592533114
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
An illustrated guide to embellishing dolls with beads Beading, one of the oldest forms of craft, is also a hot new trend and being used in new applications. Beadwork, which has typically been used in fashion, home decoration, and jewelry, is reaching for new horizons and showing up on quilts, journals, knits, crochet, and fiber arts of all kinds. In this book, author Patti Medaris Culea 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.
