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• Amazon Sales Rank: #419564 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

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Not for dollmakers
I usually purchase all books that have to do with cloth dolls just because they're a rarity, and I like to support cloth doll artists of all types. That said, this may become the first doll book that I ever return. There is a paucity of information about dollmaking in general, and so much white space on every page that it's clear that there wasn't enough material on anything to warrant a full length book. I'm not sure how this author got a book deal, unless whoever gave it to her was completely ignorant of the many amazing cloth doll artists in the world today. I am completely shocked that Interweave Press put out this book. It is so bad as to be embarrassing. The patterns are simplistic, the face painting instructions are sketchy, and most of the techniques are really about manipulating fabric, not dollmaking. And even those techniques are not fully explained, and the work pictured is messy. There are also VERY few dolls pictured in the book; and the author's handwork is not even up to the intermediate beginner standard. Prospective buyers would be much better served purchasing any of the excellent works by Patti Culea on cloth dolls, or even by visiting a site such as joggles.com or dollmakersjourney.com and purchasing 2 or 3 patterns by almost any cloth doll designer on either of those sites. A real disappointment.

Disgusted, or just very dissapointed...not about making dolls....
I looked forward to this book,and when I recieved it yesterday,I decided to return it.
It did not seem to be about dollmaking,but seemed more to be a "push" on trendy products to make special effects,and that is what bothered me.I looked through the book,and was immediately bored.It's not about love of dollmaking,it is about what to do with plastic fibres and alot of expensive craft/junk on the market.Some of you readers may know exactly what I mean by the term "craft/junk"
If you want a how to book on melting angelina fibres,and combining products that you can buy online,go online and buy the products,and save your money on the cost of this book.
I find it very dull,and trendy.It smacks of "sommerset",the latest trendmaker in "how to be creative"-if you have 200.00 plus to blow on rubber stamps and synthetic fibres.
I do not care for "trendy", and gimmicks,and this book has little to do with doll making,it is about selling plastic fibers to melt with your blowdryer.Go to Wallmart and buy some polyester,and grab your oldest iron and burn the daylights out of the stuff.It's way cheaper,and you will have the gratification of not liking the compressed goop without hating you paypal account for buying expensive plastic shards to mess up your iron with, let alone trying to hand stitch through the tough goop and try and make a doll with, this is just another book of gimmicks without heart of art making.
I don't recommend this book in the least.I am sending it back tomorrow morning.

Not for Advanced Cloth Doll Makers
I returned this book. It was not advanced enough for me. However, I will say for a intermediate cloth doll maker, it might be good. Has a very good tutorial on face drawing and coloring. Has good descriptions of embellishing fabrics. However, for advanced doll makers, it is just a grouping of techniques we are already familiar with. It does includes flat faces and sculpted faces. It also includes patterns for dolls including a stump doll, wired armature dolls (very simple one) and a full bodied doll. I do like the fabric embellishments she did on the fabric for the doll costumes which are explained fully in the book.