Creative Cloth Doll Couture: New Approaches to Making Beautiful Clothing and Accessories [Paperback]

Patti Medaris Culea (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2006

This book is the third installment on making creative art doll clothing and accessories from successful doll artist Patti Culea, following Creative Cloth Doll Making and Creative Cloth Doll Faces, both from Rockport Publishers. This book builds on the previous two by delving into how to make exotic and beautiful garments and accessories such as hats, shoes, and purses for art dolls.

This is the only book available on making clothing for art dolls. Moreover, it not only includes a pattern for various wardrobe staples, but the author offers basic garment making techniques, as well as information on decorative fabric treatments and embellishments.

Culea provides tips and techniques for creating everything from a vintage 1940's ensemble to a 1960's type of outfit. There are techniques for dyeing, painting, and stamping to create a beautiful evening gown and how to drape a doll body to create your own pattern. Professional tips, ideas for embellishments, cutting-edge techniques, short cuts, pattern making ideas, and more are also included.

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About the Author

Patti Medaris Culea has a full line of cloth doll patterns and her work has appeared in books, magazines, and galleries. She is the author of Creative Cloth Doll Making (2003) and Creative Cloth Doll Faces (2005). She resides in San Diego, California

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Quarry Books (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592532179
• ISBN-13: 978-1592532179
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Patti comes to the cloth doll world via the fine arts world. She has found those artistic skills have helped her in her designs, books and classes she teaches. Having two daughters also helped her move from painting portraits to making dolls.

Patti travels throughout the world spreading the joy of cloth doll making and fiber art journals. She continues working with Quarry Publishing by coming up with new ideas for books.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TO BE HONEST Creative Cloth Doll Couture, August 3, 2006

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Sharon Nordgren (Oldsmar, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creative Cloth Doll Couture: New Approaches to Making Beautiful Clothing and Accessories (Paperback)

To be absolutely honest..When I first received Creative Cloth Doll Couture
I was disappointed, Know how creative Patti Medaris Culea is , is just beyond words,
I have all her books, Creative Cloth Doll Couture at first glance I thought oh no! This isn't my style
of creating my dolls, I thought !!!
BUT as you truly dive into each and every page of Creative Cloth Doll Couture's
You will learn not only knowledge but wisdom also!
I am learning so much about creating a dolls clothing for ANY type of dolls, learning about
"ALL THE HOW TO DO IT'S"
From :body construction, making darts, how to draw a face , face sculpturing, 3 piece heads, jointed legs,
straight legs and so much more
How to create Clothing, and Accessories, Learn from creating clothes from Fairy, Whimsical, Formal,
BIGGEST thing I have wanted to learn was the different types of materials, this book tells ya!!!!
collage, layering,appliques' fiber and transfers
I HIGHLY recommend this book..from beginners to advanced!

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Pictures and Ideas, July 27, 2006

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Teagan Blue (Texas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Creative Cloth Doll Couture: New Approaches to Making Beautiful Clothing and Accessories (Paperback)

This book begins with directions to make the doll. This is good, because you are not forced to buy a separate book for this. Most importantly this is a book for the truly creative, for those who want something different. If you need inspiration and ideas, this book is for you, there are a few galleris of examples throughout the book. The cloths range from all the pieces of a skirt suit (including lingerie and shoes) to 60's bell bottoms to fairy-ware. They are colorful, unusual and some are high fashion evening ware. The pictures are great and the instructions seem clear (I have not made any of the clothes yet. Unfortunately there are more gallery pictures than patterns, that is my only complaint. There is engough of the basic theory to help you design some simple clothes on your own. I have all three books in this series and they are all very good!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Doll Book, January 5, 2007

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Carole D. Brinkley "carole d in wv" (west virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creative Cloth Doll Couture: New Approaches to Making Beautiful Clothing and Accessories (Paperback)

For the avid doll maker this book is full of inspiration and information. I highly recommend this book, regardless of your skill level at sewing. I can not sew well, but the directions make it easy to follow basic patterns. The pictures are beautiful and the book is a job to look at. Truely a must have for any cloth doll maker!