Sewing & Sculpting Dolls: Easy-to-Make Dolls from Fabric, Modeling Paste, and Polymer Clay
By Eloise Piper
1997
ISBN: 0-8019-8872-1
116 pages
If your passion for polymer clay is matched only by your desire to make dolls, this might be just the book for you. Use this volume to educate yourself in the art of doll-making, starting with the classic rag doll and working your way through to dolls with modeling paste faces or polymer clay heads, hands, and feet. There are two pages introducing the ins and outs of sculpting with polymer clay, and chapter five is dedicated completely to “medley dolls”—advanced doll projects that combine cloth doll bodies with polymer clay heads, hands, and feet. Step-by-step instructions and photos take you through the sculpting of a doll’s head from polymer clay. Line drawings compliment step-by-step directions for sculpting hands, arms, legs, and feet. From doll design—to decoration of the polymer clay head, hands, and feet—all the way to sewing the body and putting it all together, you’ll find everything you need to get started on your own polymer clay doll adventure. All parts of the book are well illustrated with line drawings and occasional photos of the author’s dolls. An index makes it easy to quickly locate specific information.