Customer Reviews

Making Rag Dolls

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This book is absolutely wonderful for begginers as well as more advanced doll makers. I have made and have given away so many of these dolls that I have honestly lost count. They are easy to make and come out so adorable that everyone that I have given one to, young or old, have fallen in love with them. They are very addicting to make as well. I do many crafts and make many dolls and I always come back to this book to make more of these great dolls. Thank you so much to the author for such a awesome book!

Here we have a simple, clearly written, well illustrated book of rather dull and in some cases downright ugly dolls.

I don't agree with the previous reviewer who thought that the ethnic dolls were not very nice - I think the author is an equal opportunity insulter - black, white, old, young, male, female, each has its poster child for an ugly doll in this book! In fact the black doll shown on the front cover is one of the the nicer dolls I think.

What I find this book useful for is the basic patterns, which I think you should then take away and be more creative with. But of course, if you really like traditional rag dolls, then these are for you.

The dolls are sweet and fun, but the directions were sketchy at best and scattered throughout the book for any one doll. Very poor layout also. The photographs were excellent.

I was very dissappointed when I received this book. From the other reviews I thought this was a quality book with multicultural dolls in it. If I were African American I would very affended by the AA dolls the author has included in this book. I would not recommend this book if you are looking for realistic doll or multicultural dolls.

i found this book very easy to understand yet interesting.

i have made several of the dolls and feel like this author/ artist must have been very talented and creative.

well done Ms Clarke

This is a beautifully witten and well illustated book, well worth a read.