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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE: DOLLMAKING TECHNIQUES
- CHAPTER 1: Getting Started
- Dollmaking Essentials
- CHAPTER 2: Creating the Doll Body
- Tinting and Dyeing Fabric for the Doll Body
- Making the Basic Doll Body- Renaissance Woman
- Making an Armature
- CHAPTER 3: Creating the Doll's Face
- Sculpting the Face- Renaissance Woman
- Face Painting
- Painting Renaissance Woman
- Painting Medieval Jester
- Other coloring Methods
- Embroidering the Face
- CHAPTER 4: The Crowning Glory- Hair and Wigs
- Hair Fibers
- Making the Hair for Renaissance Woman
- Dyeing Doll Hair
- Wig Making
- Ten Creative Wig-Making and Embellishment Techniques
- CHAPTER 5: Costuming the Doll
- Drafting Doll Clothing Patterns
- How to make Shoes
- How to make Fairy Wings
- Embellishements for Doll Costumes
- PART TWO: A PAGEANT OF DOLLS:
- 13" Tulip(Rita Carl)
- 14" Tom Mato(Sue Little)
- 37" Constable Shoes(Miriam Christensen Gourley)
- 15" Medieval Knight(Brenda Gehl)
- 19" Momotaro "Little Peach"(Shauna Mooney)
- 18" Frens(Annie Moon)
- 12" Posey Julia(Elise Peeples)
- 12" Vasalissa's Doll(Sue McFadden)
- 23" Whimsical Personage(Barbara Chapman)
- 13 1/2" The Maid Was in the Garden(Betts Vidal)
- Templates
- Lesson Planning
- Resources
PATTERN RATING:
You get an amazing variety of projects of all different styles(see listing of Pageant of Dolls) by 10 different artists. Patterns appear to be full-size and are well marked.
INSTRUCTION RATING:
Instructions are broken down for each project and have some illustration to help the sewer. There is a Gorgeous full-color photo of each doll that lets you see good detail.
BONUS MECHANICS RATING:
This book gets a couple of bonus stars for its innovations and general techniques sections that help the dollmaker build on their own ideas for a doll.