Creating Period Style for Your Doll's House


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Each chapter covers a different fixture or fitting suited to a period home, followed by a photo gallery of ideas in chronological order. These will assist model makers both in selection and styling before embarking upon one of a selection of projects that also offer tips on decorative finishes.




How to Make Your Dolls' House Special


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Wonderful roof tiles, convincing thatching, realistic brickwork, paving, and other stylish decorations transform a dolls' house into something personal and unique. Inventive instruction on engraving, choosing materials, building miniature "heirlooms," and making everything from wallpapering to topiary to gates. "All you need is a little creativity and some motivation."--"Doll Castle News."




Make Your Own Dolls' House Furniture


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Discusses the construction of doll house furniture and features detailed plans for such furnishings as a gate-leg table, Aga cooker, tapestry fire screen, and Windsor writing chair.




Making Period Dolls' House Accessories


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Imagine looking inside a Victorian house bedroom, and on the vanity you see a comb and brush set, a nail buffer, and curling tongs, each so tiny you can barely make them out. How do you make such delicate pieces? With these imaginative techniques you use ordinary tools and items you find around the house, such as thin wood strips, fine-design fabrics, buttons, beads, and bric-a-brac, as well as earrings, feathers, flowers, shells, and even a sloughed-off snakeskin. Using the standard inch-to-a-foot scale, accessorize a dollhouse with dainty items you can sell today because their antique counterparts are all but nonexistent. Here are just a few of the 85 projects and over 200 pieces you can make by following the simple instructions: ladies' and gentlemen's accessories: silver pocket watch, brandy decanter and glass, silk shoes; Food: cakes on cake stands, strings of garlic; Bedroom: chamber pot, writing slate, wax doll; Sitting room: porcelain figures, gramophone. Bonus: How to make dollhouse Oriental objets d'art, below-stairs brooms and brushes, gas wall lamps, and much more.




Felt Wee Folk: New Adventures


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“A fabulous book! . . . If you enjoy tiny, detailed projects that allow for lots of creativity and personal handiwork, I cannot recommend this book enough!” —Feeling Stitchy Salley Mavor’s book Felt Wee Folk inspired tens of thousands to handcraft dolls from simple materials. Now, she invites you to return to the wee world with Felt Wee Folk—New Adventures, starring 120 dolls to spark smiles and creativity. As requested by fans, this long-awaited follow-up shares more challenging projects. Explore fresh scenes and an array of new outfits, hairstyles, and accessories, with full-sized patterns. Make bendable dolls that resemble you, your family, or your favorite fairy-tale characters with wool felt, chenille stems, and decorative stitching. Display the figures in a dollhouse, atop a wedding cake, or in a holiday scene to be cherished year after year. From the pages of Mavor’s award-winning children’s books to your home, the enchanting wee folk dolls appeal to crafters of all ages and skill levels. More dolls, more scenes, and more outfits Use your stash—wool felt, chenille stems, and simple embellishments Delightful, challenging projects, as requested by fans Felt Wee Folk was a Foreword Reviews’ GOLD WINNER for Crafts & Hobbies “While the original book included projects beyond Wee Folk dolls, the new volume focuses on the dolls themselves. Fairies and families, kings and knights, and even some not-too-scary pirates all grace the pages of the book, beckoning readers to at least admire, if not try to create, Wee Folk of their own.” —The Enterprise (Cape Cod)




Designing and Decorating a Period Dolls' House


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Designing and Decorating a Period Dolls' House is a step-by-step guide for those new to the hobby who would love to dive in the amazing world of dolls' houses and miniatures. It will enable you to build a Victorian Period Dolls' House in 1:12 scale using a combination of room boxes. With over 300 colourful photos and illustrations to guide you through the way, it also includes a guide to choosing the right dolls' house project, A list of tools, supplies and materials needed to build a doll's house and information about how and where to use them, A step-by-step guide to building a six-roomed Victorian dolls' house and decorating the exterior and the interior of the project, An explanatory tutorial on installing lighting in the dolls' house, How to furnish and add miniatures to your dolls' house project and a Step-by-step tutorials showing how to make several miniature projects for the dolls' house with the use of pieces that you might find in your own home.




The Decorated Doll's House


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A guide to decorating dolls' houses incorporating step-by-step instructions to creating different period styles from American country to Art Nouveau, Baroque to Biedermeier. The text outlines the basic principles of interior design in miniature and follows 20 specific projects.




My Book of Little House Paper Dolls


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Bring Laura's pioneer adventures to life with this latest collection of paper dolls adapted from the "Little House on the Prairie" series. Join Laura as she travels to the wide-open Kansas prairie and plays in the high prairie grass. With Laura, Mary, Ma, Pa, Baby Carrie, Jack and even Mr. Edwards, this newest collection is sure to bring hours of enjoyment.




A Dolls House


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A Doll's House by Henrick Ibsen tells the story of Nora, a woman who is treated like a doll in her own home. Set in Victorian Norway, Nora eventually flees her marriage and children in an attempt to discover herself despite being confined by patriarchal society. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes




Making and Dressing Doll House Dolls


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A guide to making dolls'-house dolls and dressing them in a wide range of Georgian, Regency, Victorian and Edwardian styles and fashions for ladies, gentlemen and children. Information is included on equipment, materials, wigs, hats and dressmaking methods.