Author offers this fabulous collection of patterns for a range of dolls, from flapper dolls with attitude, to modest ladies, to cute babies and children. Easy-to-follow patterns and step-by-step photos and illustrations guide sewers through 10 cloth doll projects. Every process is detailed, from the basics of cutting patterns to applying the final touches of paint to the faces. Each project includes a convenient list of materials for both doll and clothing. Vivid full color photos detail the gorgeous finished projects and provide inspiration for crafters.
Added by: orchiddl | Karma: 2026.11 | Fiction literature | 19 February 2010
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A Doll's House
A Doll's House is a realistic stage drama in three acts. It depicts ordinary life as it is, not as one would like it to be. It is sometimes referred to as a problem play because it centers on social problems and controversial issues. Examples of other problem plays by Ibsen are The Wild Duck, An Enemy of the People, and Ghosts. The play was published in 1879-82 and staged for the first time in Kristiania (or Christiana), Norway. , when realism was just beginning to take root.
Filled with patterns by well-known designer Rosemarie Ionker, this book shows you how to create one-of-a-kind wardrobes for a variety of dolls ranging from seven to twelve inches tall -- dolls as diverse as Vogue's Ginny, Wendy Lawton's Mary Anne, Helen Kish's Tulah and Avery, and Robert Tonner's Linda. They and a host of other delightful dolls model the many outfits the author has made from these patterns. The distinguished German designer shares her techniques for creating an entire wardrobe from her basic patterns.
Bringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls explores the idea of the "posthuman" and the ways in which it is represented in popular culture. Toffoletti explores images of the posthuman body from goth-rocker Marilyn Manson's digitally manipulated self-portraits to the famous TDK "baby" adverts, and from the work of artist Patricia Piccinini to the curiously "plastic" form of the ubiquitous Barbie doll, controversially rescued here from her negative image. Drawing on the work of thinkers including Baudrillard, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls explores the nature of the human - and its ambiguous gender - in an age of biotechnologies and digital worlds.
