Download or read book Creative Cloth Doll Beading written by Patti Medaris Culea and published by Quarry. This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Creative Cloth Doll Beading written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creative Cloth Doll Collection written by Patti Medaris Culea and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of the first four of Patti Medaris Culea's bestselling books: Creative Cloth Doll Making, Creative Cloth Doll Faces, Creative Cloth Doll Couture, and Creative Cloth Doll Beading. This comprehensive book guides readers through all the basics of creating cloth figures, with step-by-step fully illustrated instruction. Readers get complete patterns to create several styles of dolls, many with interchangeable parts. The book provides methods for creating beautiful faces, hair, garments, clothing, and supplies instruction in a wide variety of surface design techniques including dyeing, painting, stamping, beading, applique, hand and machine embroidery, image transfers, using Tyvek, and more. For further inspiration, the book also includes a gallery of doll designs by other leading doll artists, all made using the patterns from the book.
Download or read book Creative Cloth Doll Making written by Patti Medaris Culea and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Creative Cloth Explorations written by Patti Medaris Culea and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces new, creative techniques for the fiber journaler, scrapbooker, doll maker, beader, and sewer through fairy-inspired projects. This book is the fifth installment on making creative cloth fiber arts from popular art doll designer, fiber artist, and workshop instructor Patti Culea, following Creative Cloth Doll Making, Creative Cloth Doll Faces, Creative Cloth Doll Couture, and Creative Cloth Beaded Dolls. This book builds on the previous four by delving into how to make fun and elaborate-looking projects using the same old materials in a new and unique way. Readers will learn to make flat figures, fabric books, and a fairy-style fan. Culea covers the basics and provides new techniques–such as using Shiva paint sticks and stencils, working with silk rods and waste, and using lace and trims as a frame–while teaching you to how create a flat figure doll, memory journal with embellished cloth pages, and a beautiful fan. Professional tips, ideas for embellishments, cutting-edge techniques, and complete patterns for all the projects are included.
Download or read book Creative Cloth Doll Faces written by Patti Medaris Culea and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The face is the most important feature of a doll -- it is also the most challenging. So it is surprising that there is so little instruction available on creating doll faces. This book fills that void. Author Patti Medaris Culea began her career in art as a portrait painter and she puts that experience to work when creating her doll faces. In this book, she shows readers a simple technique for easily creating faces using her step-by-step approach. She gives her tips for how to divide the face into quadrants, graft features together, and much more. Every aspect of doll making is covered -- from the basics to detailed techniques for making the various faces to instructions for putting a pattern together. Readers will learn how to use watercolor pencils, acrylics, and fabric paints to color a face, how to create a face using collage techniques as well as stamping and beading, and tips for working with stretchy fabrics to create indented eyes, separate eyelids, and sculpted lips.
Download or read book Making Fantasy Cloth Dolls written by Jan Horrox and published by Search Press Limited. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the success of Jan Horrox's previous book, Introduction to Making Cloth Dolls, Jan's new book focuses on her exquisite fantasy dolls, including beautiful fairies, amazing mermaids, an enigmatic witch and a steampunk doll with attitude. These magical dolls are full of character and are amazingly easy to achieve with the help of this practical book. Step-by-step instructions are provided for all the basic techniques, including how to make the bodies, heads, arms, legs, hands and feet; how to make the hair; and how to needlesculpt and paint the exquisite faces to really bring your character to life. There are instructions for making webbed fingers, delicate fairy wings as well as a mermaid's tail, and there are three easy-to-follow projects to put all your newly acquired skills into practice. Jan encourages the reader to use their imagination and create dolls of their own, and the alternative designs that accompany each project show how easily this can be done simply by changing the faces, colours, fabrics and embellishments used.
Download or read book Cloth Doll Workshop written by elinor peace bailey and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Introduction to Making Cloth Dolls written by Jan Horrox and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cloth Doll Faces written by Ray Slater and published by Search Press Limited. This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dollmaking One Artist s Approach written by Robert Keene McKinley and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fanciful Cloth Dolls written by Terese Cato and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to be a doll maker to enjoy creating these little sweethearts. If you love to craft and sew, you'll have fun learning new techniques for creating a whimsical fairy, an impish elf, or a sweet pincushion girl. Each of the four projects has complete head-to-toe instructions, including details for expressive faces, perfect hair, cute clothes, and an abundance of accessories.
Download or read book Making Creative Cloth Dolls written by Marthe Le Van and published by Lark Books (NC). This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start with a bejeweled goddess made from an easy “napkin” fold. Then try Pamela Hastings’ angelic “Clarity” doll, Arlinka Blair’s “Kuba Spirit” dressed in bold African textiles, and others. “Go beyond what you usually think of as cloth dolls and create a wonderfully imaginative collection of figures.”—Doll Castle News. “A good buy for large public libraries and textile collections.”—Library Journal.
Download or read book Creative Cloth Doll Faces written by Patti Medaris Culea and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The face is the most important feature of a doll - it is also the most challenging. Yet, surprisingly, there is very little instruction available on creating doll faces, which means that Creative Cloth Doll Faces fills a void. Author Patti Medaris Culea began her career in art as a portrait painter and she puts that experience to work when creating her doll faces. In this book, she shows readers a simple technique for easily creating faces using her step-by-step approach. She gives tips for how to divide the face into quadrants, graft features together and more. Every aspect of doll making is covered - from the basics to detailed techniques for making the various faces to instructions for putting a pattern together. Readers will learn how to use watercolour pencils, acrylics and fabric paints to colour a face; how to create a face using collage techniques as well as stamping and beading; and tips for working with stretchy fabrics to create indented eyes, separate eyelids and sculpted lips.
Download or read book Mother Plays with Dolls and Finds an Important Key to Unlocking Creativity written by Elinor Peace Bailey and published by Epm Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elinor Bailey. One of the most inventive figures in today's fiber arts, Bailey has developed a way for virtually anyone to break through to his or her innermost self. By using a basic doll pattern and playing with its size, shape, hair, and attire, amateurs and pros alike will produce endlessly imaginative creations.
Download or read book Designer Bead Embroidery written by Kenneth D. King and published by Creative Publishing International. This book was released on 2006 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Original designs for beaded borders, backgrounds, edgings, motifs, and fringes to embellish bridal, evening, and casual fashions. Complete basics section teaches the stitches and skills needed"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Anatomy of a Doll written by Susanna Oroyan and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At last! A complete book on doll design and soft sculpture has been written.” —Virginia Robertson, designer and publisher Master dollmaker Susanna Oroyan gives you the definitive book on fabric sculpting. Anatomy of a Doll is packed with an abundance of exquisite photographs that capture the best work from dollmakers today. Detailed step-by-step illustrations for an incredible variety of cloth dolls are included for you to create any type of cloth doll imaginable. Many methods of doll construction are covered so that beginning and professional dollmakers have a handy answer book. Beginners will find the book a practical guide that examines techniques for making all kinds of dolls. The more experienced dollmaker will discover an abundance of new ideas and techniques never before found in one book. Anatomy of a Doll shows you everything from bending wire to cutting cloth, which will allow you to create your own original dolls! “[Enjoy] this book as a peerless museum guide, as a user’s manual of the inventive hand and mind, and as a parable of science.” —Scientific American “It’s finally happened—the cloth doll book that says it all! Thank you Susanna—the table is set, the banquet is prepared!” —Elinor Peace Bailey, author of Storytelling with Dolls “Here is all the information you need—written in Susie’s friendly, casual style.” —Cary Raesner, editor of Doll World
