Make dolls with larger-than-life personalities! Create festive dolls with bright colors and cheerful eyes guaranteed to bring warmth and joy to any home. Shirley Hudson’s art dolls are easy to make and fun to paint using cloth, simple sewing, and fun embellishments. For every crafter of any skill set, follow the step-by-step process and detailed instructions for replicating four art dolls. Then, enjoy the gallery of doll photography for an inspirational springboard for making your unique creations. Every holiday can now have a new friend to add to the home decor, including a sweet bunny, spooky vampire, jolly snowman, and a lucky leprechaun. Bring special meaning to the holidays with handmade treasures! Simple-to-make and easy-to-paint art dolls for any season or from any inspiration Dolls stitch together in a flash and are fun to paint using easy-to-follow instructions Kid-friendly! Crafters of any age will have fun making these dolls

Create festive dolls with bright colors and cheerful eyes guaranteed to bring warmth and joy to any home. Shirley Hudson's art dolls are easy to make and fun to paint using cloth, simple sewing, and fun embellishments.

Hundreds of clear illustrations and detailed descriptions of now-antique dolls, teddy bears, dollhouses, furniture, more.

Reproduced directly from rare original plates, this full-color volume contains four charming dolls and 30 appealing costumes, including a bright red snow suit, blue-and-white striped overalls, plus many more delightful costumes.

"Published in conjuction with the exhibition Black Dolls from the collection of Deborah Neff at Mingei International Museum Feb. 7- July 5, 2015"--Colophon.

32 traditional outfits include wedding apparel for a Manchu bride and groom, ornate costumes for the Peacock, a dance of the Dai people, wardrobe accents, and much more.

Annabelle Doll is eight years old-she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll family, day after day, year after year. . . until one day the Funcrafts move in.

2 dolls model 32 traditional costumes worn by a sticks dancer, tattooed chieftain, hula dancer, warrior, last ruling monarchs, and others.

Part of the popular Famous series, Famous Dolls celebrates dolls in film, TV, cartoons, books, comics and comic strips, as well as toys such as Hamble in Playschool. It also explores the world of celebrity dolls including stars such as Shirley Temple and Mae West, pop star dolls including Michael Jackson and Cher, and dolls representing royalty. Written by leading doll expert, Susan Brewer, the author of British Dolls in the 1950s and British Dolls in the 1960s, the book starts with a series of essays setting dolls in context and exploring their role in popular culture. The main part of the book is an impressive A-Z of famous dolls, with symbols to show in which field they became famous (e.g. cartoons, toys or comic strips). The stories behind each of the dolls are told, including the tragic tale of Raggedy Ann and how a little girl inspired one of the most iconic character dolls of all time. A must-buy book for everyone who has ever own or collected dolls or is interested in popular culture.Did you know? The author of Raggedy Ann, Johnny Gruelle, was a vehement anti-vaccination campaigner after his young daughter died when she was vaccinated at school without his consent Angela Rippon created the Victoria Plum doll series based on a plum tree in her garden Holly Hobbie is an author and illustrator who named the famous patchwork-wearing little girl after her. It became a popular doll in the 1970s

Irene and Yannis come with 32 costumes and accessories — 12 from the fashions of antiquity and the rest from the folk styles of modern times. Apparel of peasants, nobles, priestess, and soldier, plus embroidered garments from Macedonia, Thrace, Athens, and the islands.