Minature hat designs for dolls. Color photographis of many types of minature hat designs for dolls and step-by-step instructions on how to create these hats.

Hats are pure fun and the perfect item to cap off any costume or ensemble. The right headgear ensures complete transformation, especially on the head of an imaginative child. The Paper Hat Book offers creative families 20 fantastic paper hats, all of which can be created quickly and easily from readily accessible papers: shopping bags, newspapers, comics, recycled story books, magazines, packaging scraps, and junk mail! Artist and designer Alyn Carlson creates hats that are perfect for birthday parties, playdates, costumes, and everyday dress up. Each hat can be styled to perfectly suit the wearer by merely selecting the right paper and colors. The hat themes range from Floral Flappers to Viking Warriors, and from superheroes and pirates to beautiful butterfly hats.

This antique book contains a detailed guide to the designing and making of hats. This text was written for those who need a guide in technique when preparing for an examination, such as those of the City and Guilds of London Institute as well as for those interested in the trade as a whole. Covering most of the basic technique in an accessible and comprehensive fashion, this book is a great resource for beginners and students of the craft, and constitutes a great addition to any collection of millinery-based literature. Chapters contained herein include: Making a Hat; Equipment and Tools, Stitches, Sewing Cottons, and Wires; Esparterie Work, including Shape-Making; Materials, including the Grain of Material, Covering Materials, Draping Materials, Making Patterns, Sectional Works, Copying; Felt; Straw, including Braids, Pedal, Hoods; and many more. This text has been elected for modern republication due to its educational value and is proudly republished here with a new introduction to the subject.

A bespoke hat, designed with a particular event in mind, is something that many people long for but often feel is price prohibitive. In this fabulous new book, couture milliners, Lomax & Skinner, show that this need not be the case. clear and comprehensive step-by-step instructions and photography includes 12 very different hats for a variety of occasions, including a wood felt tribly, a chic pillbox, a fascinator and a feathered headband materials and equipment that are required are fully detailed, along with all the necessary techniques Full of inspirational and instructional photography, Millinery truly showcases this wonderful craft and provides all the know-how in order to achieve high-end, couture results at home.

Contains 29 doll hat patterns for complementing your antique doll's outfit. Patterns, many by Sandy Williams, are accompanied with helpful instructions, suggestions and millinery hints. 85 b/w photos.

Shoe lovers, look no further! This book is the perfect fit for you! Sought-after designer, Timothy Alberts, walks doll and shoe admirers through the fun and rewarding process of crafting a miniature shoe. 154 colour photographs will make you envy the dolls that get to wear these gorgeous works of art. Don't miss checking out the entertaining shoe timeline, which tracks the history of fashion and footwear trends over the last few centuries.

For anyone who adores the art of creating small things, The Art of theiniature provides a treasure trove of practical techniques and ingeniouspproaches. In this captivating guide, noted artist Jane Freeman showseaders, step by step, how to use modified kit components and found andandmade objects to create intensely detailed miniature constructions.eaders will learn the entire process of creating a miniature room, structure,r landscape, from selecting a container to choosing the subject, approach,nd style. Page after page of wonderful, full-color examples displayainstakingly accurate "portraits" of interiors and buildings (like aollywood studio and a trendy New York City retail store), imaginary operaets (Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute) and even the studios of famous artists.he book also features the inspirational work of several other leadinginiatures artists, including Susan Leopold, David Levinthal, Victoria andichard MacKenzie-Childs, and Alan Wolfion.