Introduction to Making Cloth Dolls - Softcover

Horrox, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844484580 ISBN 13: 9781844484584

Publisher: Search Press, 2011

Synopsis

"This guide to cloth doll-making demonstrates how to create exquisite and stylish dolls that make wonderful gifts or collectibles. A great way to use up scraps of material, the dolls portrayed in these projects are made using a wide variety of colorful fa

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About the Author

Jan Horrox is a clothing designer and former teacher. She has a successful online doll-making supply business and exhibits her work regularly throughout the United Kingdom.

Reviews

Meet three 16- to 18-inch designer dolls with lineages similar to those of such couture wearables as Rodarte and the late Alexander McQueen�s. No wonder, since their UK creator, Horrox, has extensive experience in textiles and fashion. Her training shows, first, in the explanation of materials, tools, and equipment, with careful listing of both required and not-so-necessary tools. 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. Meet Miranda, Anastasia (woodland nymph), and Titania (yes, the fairy), all delightfully posed and designed to brighten the living space or bedroom of anyone, of any age. Eight pages of templates are appended. --Barbara Jacobs

Edition details

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844484580
• ISBN 13: 9781844484584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96