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Dolls and Doll Making

Cloth Dolls: How to Make Them by Miriam Gourley
A wonderful book with dolls for every sewing level. Each doll represents a different style of cloth dollmaking. Features full sized patterns and all instructions. Dolls by: elinor peace bailey, Ruth Landis, Christine Shively, Becky Tuttle, Karen Balding and others.

Anatomy of a Doll: the Fabric Sculptor's Handbook by Susanna Oroyan
The definitive book of cloth doll making! Covers all types of dolls from the most primitive of crude fabric forms to the most sophisticated dolls with full armatures, skeletal and muscular substructures and layered "skin". The photographs are breathtaking. You will see the work of the finest cloth doll artists working today, and with this book, you have an aid to creating your own masterpiece. This is not a book of patterns, rather a true handbook, cataloguing scores of techniques and materials. Essential to any doll collector's or doll maker's library!!!

Mother Plays With Dolls...and Finds an Important Key to Unlocking Creativity by elinor peace bailey
What a delight! Cloth doll making's flamboyant spokesperson, elinor shares her creative process and challenges us to be creative as well. A highly inspirational book, it includes a magnificent fold-out "gallery" of dolls by such artists as Susanna Oroyan (see above), Sally Lampi, Antonette Cely, Collette Wolf, Miriam Gourley (see above), Lisa Lichtenfels, Virginia Robertson and of course, elinor herself. Includes modular pattern on which all the dolls were made.

Creating and Crafting Dolls: Patterns, Techniques, and Inspirations for Making Cloth Dolls by Eloise Piper and Mary Dilligan
A lovely book, particularly well suited to beginning cloth doll makers. Includes extensive information on dyeing doll fabric and dolls to achieve a rainbow of skin tones; the book is well worth buying for this feature alone. A nice selection of cute, play type dolls.

Teach Yourself Cloth Doll making: Simple Techniques and Patterns for Dolls and Doll Clothes by Jodie Davis
Jodie encourages your creativity with this book of patterns and instructions. Begin with a simple "pancake" doll or plunge right into the fashion doll. A wide range of techniques and tips are included as well as inspiring photos of Jodie's work and that of her students.

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