American Dress Patterns Catalog, 1873-1909; Nancy Villa Bryk
American Victorian Costume in Early Photographs; Priscilla Harris Dalrymple - The photos are grouped by decade and show men, women and children of all ages and social classes. The editor's notes are conveniently placed near the photos and contain clear and interesting details about the costumes. Together the notes and the photos provide a useful resource and fun browse for all those interested in Victorian costume and manners.
Anatomy of a Doll: The Fabric Sculptor's Handbook; Susanna Oroyan - More than just a dollmaking book, Anatomy of a Doll provides a fascinating overview of the creative process that has gone into dollmaking for centuries. With nearly 300 excellent photographs of her own dolls and those of many other accomplished artists, noted doll expert Susanna Oroyan offers instructions and ideas for a tremendous variety of cloth dolls. Separate chapters are devoted to the head, the body (including hands and feet), body joints, assemblies, and finishing details. There is enough practical information on all aspects of basic techniques to help the novice dollmaker, and even experts will discover an abundance of new ideas.
Antique Childrens Fashions; Hazel Ulseth
Baby Dolls: Volume II; Mildred Seeley
The Barbie Chronicles - A Living Doll Turns 40; Yona Z. McDonough - To some she's a collectible, to others she's trash. In The Barbie Chronicles, twenty-three writers join together to scrutinize Barbie's forty years of hateful, lovely disastrous, glorious influence on us all. No other tiny shoulders have ever, had to carry the weight of such affection and derision and no other book has ever paid this notorious little place of plastic her due. Whether you adore her or abhor her, The Barbie Chronicles will have you looking at her in ways you never imagined.
The Barbie Doll Boom: Identification and Values; J. Michael Augustyniak - The Barbie Boom features information on virtually every U.S. Barbie and a sampling of the most popular foreign dolls beginning in 1986, the year Mattel released the first doll especially for adult collectors. More than 400 full-color photos showcase over 800 dolls.
Barbie Doll Fashion: 1958-1974, Vol.2; Sarah Eames - In Vol. II of Sarah Sink Eames' Barbie Doll Fashion, Barbie's mod and psychedelic fashions are carefully chronicled. Over 700 color photos detail descriptions and current values for all the original outfits for all of the dolls, all of the outfits sold separately, and including over 20 rare gift sets.
The Barbie Doll Years 1959-1966: A Comprehensive Listing and Value Guide of Dolls and Accessories (2nd Ed); Patrick C. Olds, Myrazona R. Olds, and Patrick C. Olds - The Barbie Doll Years, 1959-1966 is a comprehensive of all Mattel Barbie products--a must for all collectors and dealers. In addition to Barbie and her family, the book contains information on the cases, furniture, houses, paper dolls, children's clothes, jewelry, and games. Nearly 100 full-color photos.
Barbie in Fashion; Barbara Jacobs - This tiny treasure includes an introduction by Barbie herself and presents her favorite outfits from 1959 to 1989. A description of each outfit accompanies each of the 300 color photos, as well as the year in which it debuted.
The Best of the Doll Reader; Virginia Heyerdahl (Editor)
Butterick's 1892 Metropolitan Fashions; Butterick Publishing Company
The Collection of Stuffed Dolls From a Fancy World; Kyoko Yoneyama - Clearly drawn patterns and easy directions show readers how to combine various fabrics with available household materials--such as wire, ribboon, and string--to create an enchanting gallery of dolls. Includes storybook favorites such as Rapunzel and the four sisters fromLittle Women. Full color photos.
The Complete Book of All-Bisque Dolls; Mildred Seeley
The Complete Book of Dollmakaing: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide to More Than 50 Traditional and Contemporary Techniques (Watson-Guptill Crafts); Pamela Peake - This comprehensive volume packs an incredible array of dollmaking techniques into 144 pages, ranging from naive peg dolls and starter dolls to posable character dolls and elegant, sculpted figures in elaborate clothes. Following full coverage of the basics (equipment, fabrics, stuffings, patterns, wig-making, components, and accessories) is an excellent presentation of techniques, including determining proportion; producing articulation; creating all sorts of faces, hair, and clothing; and producing dolls that utilize armatures or molds. All the dolls shown are charming and beautifully made, and all use relatively inexpensive and readily obtainable materials. At the end of the book you'll find a helpful cutting guide and a number of scale patterns.
The Complete Book of Dollmaking and Collecting; Catherine Christopher Roberts
Contemporary Artist Dolls: A Collector's Guide; Susanna Oroyan
Contemporary Artist Dolls from Germany; Ann Bahar, Ingeborg Riesser
Contemporary Barbie Dolls; Jane Sarasohn-Kahn - The perfect reference for the more than 200,000 adult collectors of Barbie dolls in North America, Contemporary Barbie is a comprehensive guide to Barbie collecting after 1980, covering mass-produced as well as limited-edition Barbies. The guide provides the current value of each doll, along with special research, insights, and stories never before available.
Creating and Crafting Dolls: Patterns, Techniques, and Inspiration for Making Cloth Dolls (Craft Kaleidoscope); Eloise Piper, Mary Dilligan - A good basic introduction to the fundamentals of dollmaking, Creating & Crafting Dolls explains how to sew dolls from your own fabrics or make them from purchased blank bodies. Beginners and novices will learn how to utilize two easy patterns to construct simple but charming doll bodies, and how to adorn them with a variety of hairstyles, facial features, clothing, and accessories. (A number of patterns are included for the clothing and accessories.)
Creating Original Porcelain Dolls; Hildegard Gunzel
Crocheted Toys and Dolls: Complete Instructions for 12 Easy-To-Do Projects; Susan Verkest
Curl Talk: Making Glorious Mohair Wigs For Your Dolls; Janet Irvin, Eva Oscarsson - - Demonstrates how to achieve realistic, luxurious mohair wigs in a variety of hair styles for both modern and antique reproduction dolls. Photographs, technical drawings and step-by-step instructions permit even a novice doll maker to produce award-winning hairstyles for their dolls. Curl Talk demonstrates dozens of wig variations in addition to answering specific questions about the use of mohair, wig caps, and the widely-acclaimed Mohair Locks(tm). Any doll artist, regardless of what medium they use, will want to consult this definitive source.
Doll Costuming: How to Costume French and German Bisque Dolls; Mildred Seeley
Doll Dressmaking (Milner Craft Series); Marilyn Carter
Doll Fashion Anthology and Price Guide; Glen Madeville
The Doll's Dressmaker: The Complete Pattern Book; Venus A. Dodge - For all skill levels. This comprehensive guide to making antique reproduction to modern baby-doll clothes has interchangable pattern pieces. Therefore, any of the dresses or other clothing items can use almost any style sleeve, collar or bodice in any length. The photographs of her beautifully executed examples, make you want to re-dress every doll you own. The patterns fit the dolls that they are intended for. This book allows the experienced and novice seamstress to make just the right clothes.
Dollhouse People: A Doll Family You Can Make; Tracy Campbell Pearson
The Dollmaker's Workbook: French Dolls; Mildred Seeley
The Doll's Cobbler: A Guide to Shoemaking; Sylvia Raintree
Doll's House Dolls: 1850-1900; Magdalena Bayfield
Doll's House Dolls and Their Families; Valerie Janitch
Dollhouse Dolls and Their Clothes; Barbara Marsten, Tina Bliss
Dressing Porcelain Dolls; Maxine Henry - Whether you've got a collectible heirloom figure requiring a replacement wardrobe or a poor little naked cast-off doll needing a few outfits, you'll find help in Dressing Porcelain Dolls. Designed to fit dolls ranging from 15 to 22 inches, the clothing is based on the luxurious dresses of the 19th century. The outfits are elaborate, replete with gathers, tucks, ruffles, pleats, lace trims, and other essentials of Victorian fashion; there are even patterns for a corset, a crinoline cage, and frilly undergarments. Step-by-step directions, construction diagrams, and full-size patterns are provided for each element of each ensemble (there are eight dolls in all: six fashion plates, plus a baby in a christening layette and a boy doll in a sailor suit). Each item is rated by sewing skill required: simple, average, and complicated.
Easy-To-Make Dolls With Nineteenth-Century Costumes; G.P. Jones
Easy to Make Godey Doll; G.P. Jones - Instructions and ready-to-use patterns for a complete wardrobe.
Fantastic Figures: Ideas and Techniques Using the New Clays; Susanna Oroyan - n Anatomy of a Doll master dollmaker Susanna Oroyan gave us a definitive work on cloth dollmaking. In Fantastic Figures she concentrates on unique dolls made from polymer and paper clays, especially those that combine sculpted clay with cloth bodies. Emphasizing innovation rather than imitation, she provides lengthy and detailed information on the clays themselves; on sculpting the head, hands, feet, and legs; on finishing medium and painting methods; and on constructing the body, clothes, hair, accessories, and even display stands and tableau settings. The appendix discusses doll clubs and organizations and offers advice from other doll experts. Numerous line drawings and diagrams supplement the text, but the best feature is the set of exquisite color photographs of dolls made by 60 professional doll artists, some of whose creations are almost frightening in their startling realism.
German Children Dolls; Mildred Seeley
Hat Making For Dolls: 1855-1916; House Press Hobby
Historic Costume in Pictures; Braun and Schneider
How to Make Money With Dolls; Mildred Seeley
How to Make Perfect Dollhouse Figures; Kitty Mackey
How to Repair and Restore Dolls; Barbara Koval
Make Doll Shoes!: Workbook One; Lyn Alexander
Making and Dressing Dolls in 1/2 Scale; Sue Atkinson and Venus Dodge
Making Miniature Toys and Dolls; Jean Greenhowe
Making Original Dolls of Composition; Charlene Roth
Making Original and Portrait Dolls in Cernit; Rotraut Schrott
Medieval Costume in England and France: The 13th, 14th, and 15th Centuries; Mary G. Houston - Medieval Costumes In England And France is a carefully researched volume offering costume aficionados and enthusiasts of the medieval period a meticulously detailed and splendidly illustrated study of clothing worn in the Middle Ages. Lucidly written accounts of the style and construction of costumes worn in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries are followed by accurate descriptions and illustrations of royal raiment, elaborate ecclesiastical dress and vestments, academic and legal robes, as well as civilian dress for all classes. Mary Houston is a noted costume historian who brings her special expertise to discussions of accessories and such related subjects as ornaments, jewelry, armor, textiles, embroidery and hair-dressing. The 350 black & white line illustrations are taken from contemporary books, manuscripts, pictorial and sculptural representations. Medieval Costumes In England And France provides superbly documented information that is both clearly and succinctly presented in the text.
Milettes: Small French Dolls to Collect and Make; Mildred Seeley
Miniature Sweaters, Book I; Betty Lampden
Miniature Sweaters, Book II; Betty Lampden
Mother Plays With Dolls... And Finds an Important Key to Unlocking Creativity; Elinor Peace Bailey
The Needlecrafter's Computer Companion: Hundreds of Easy Ways to Use Your Computer for Sewing, Quilting, Cross-Stitch and More; Judy Heim - Judy shows her readers how to turn photos into cross-stitch charts, print quilting templates, and make doll clothes, create knitting and weaving patterns, rearrange quilt blocks on-screen until they're perfect, design a project, size it, print patterns, and automatically calculate needed materials, get free patterns and advise from online services and attend "virtual quilt shows", connect a sewing machine to a computer to create unique embroidery patterns, electronically link up with the hundreds of thousands of stitchers already flooding the Internet, and how to get their craft business on the Information Highway.
A Pioneer Doll and Her Quilts; Mary Hickey - Bring this wonderful pioneer doll to life for someone special. Instructions are included for two doll-size quilts (one simple enough for a child to make) and three replica outfits for the doll's wardrobe.
Prarie People: Cloth Dolls to Make and Cherish; Marji Hadley
Sculpting Dolls in Cernit; Marleen Engeler
Selling Your Dolls and Teddy Bears; Carolyn Rossel Waugh - This book leads artists step-by-step through the business, public relations and legal aspects of doll and teddy bear sales. Creators will learn the nitty-gritty details of pricing, photographing, tax planning and more.
Sewing and Sculpting Dolls: Easy to Make Dolls From Fabric, Modeling Paste and Polymer Clay; Eloise Piper - From the author: "This book is for all who love dolls and dollmaking, novices and experienced artists alike. If you enjoyed Creating and Crafting Dolls, my first dollmaking book, then you are sure to love this volume, which offers projects for a range of skill-levels. Happy dollmaking journey!"
Sewing for 20th Century Dolls: 100 Plus Projects; Johanna Anderton
Sewing Victorian Doll Clothes: Authentic Costumes from Museum Collections; Michelle Hamilton
Small Endearments: Nineteenth Century Quilts for Children and Dolls; Sandi Fox - Providing more than warmth and decoration, 19th-century quilts for children and dolls were actually
celebrations in fabric of life that served as colorful records of important family events such as marriages, births, and deaths. With more than 250 illustrations (173 in color)
Teach Yourself Cloth Dollmaking: Simple Techniques and Patterns for Dolls and Doll Clothes (Teach Yourself Series); Jodie Davis, Bill Milne (Photography) - This book is a godsend to those who want to learn about cloth dollmaking. Each step of making a doll, from basic sewing, to making the face or hair, to choosing fabrics and making clothing is covered in great detail. There are also patterns included for several dolls, each slightly more advanced than the one before it. The patterns cover several types of dolls - simple pancake dolls, a baby and 2 toddler dolls, and fantasy type dolls. It's definitely worth owning, even if you are an experienced dollmaker.
Treasury of Barbie Doll Accessories; R.Rupp
Victorian Fashions: 1880-1890;Hazel Ulseth
Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey; Alison Gernsheim
Vintage Denim; David Little, Larry Bond
Vintage Hats and Bonnets; Susan Langley - Arranged by
decades, each section begins with an historical and fashion overview followed by a description of the hat trends for the period. The Ms. Langley presents a truly comprehensive array of fashion plates, great old photos of women wearing hats, and hundreds of excellent photographs of hats from each period. This allows the reader to make a reliable determination of the origins of a hat he or she may own. Also, not just hats, but all fashion trends are depicted and described.
What People Wore: 1,800 Illustrations From Ancient Times to the Early Twentieth Century; Douglas Gorsline - Almost two thousand black and white illustrations outline the changing world of people's clothing from ancient times to the early 20th century. This is a fine survey of clothing styles and history, packed with plate after plate of style examples for both men and women.
59 Authentic Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns; Kristina Harris
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue; Fred Israel
200 Years of Dolls: Identification and Price Guide; Dawn Herlocher
