Creative Cloth Doll Couture New Approaches to Making Beautiful Clothing and Accessories Details From the back cover - Patti Culea's latest work, Creative Cloth Doll Couture, is an expert workshop on designing couture fashions for your art dolls. Making stylish, exotic, and beautiful garments and accessories, such as hats, shoes, and purses, is an essential part of designing an art doll, and a task that many doll designers find daunting. In addition to instructions for creating a basic doll designed to fit all of the featured garments, readers will find full-color, step-by-step instructions for making a vintage 1940s suit, a 1960s collaged and layered outfit, a formal gown, and a fantasy fairy ensemble with wings. Each ensemble teaches new techniques, from decorative appliqués and beaded trims to draping techniques for silks and satins, to dyeing, stamping, and painting effects. Included are: Patterns for a cloth doll and four complete couture outfits Illustrated step-by-step instructions for creating beautiful doll garments and accessories Insights into a wide variety of techniques, including beading, appliqué, coloration, draping, layering, and more Additional ga lery projects from top international doll artists to fuel creative inspiration About the Author Patti Medaris Culea studied art in Los Angeles and Japan, and began her career as a painter and portrait artist. Her interest in the human figure evolved into working with cloth. Today, she combines her love of silk and dyes by creating extraordinary fairies, mermaids, and other one-of-a-kind dolls. She has a full line of coth doll patterns and her work has appeared in books, magazines, and galleries. In demand as a teacher, she travels throughout the world. She is the author of Creative Cloth Doll Making (Rockport 2003) and Creative Cloth Doll Faces (Quarry 2005). Patti lives in San Diego, California. Sample page here. Soft cover, 128 pages. Price: $44.95 ($40.86) Contents: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 The Basic Body: Constructing the Model Doll CHAPTER 2 1940s Haute Couture: Fashioning a Stylish Suit CHAPTER 3 1960s Collage: Layering Appliques, Fiber, and Transfers CHAPTER 4 Draping for a Formal Affair: Working with Beads, Lace, Satin, and Silk CHAPTER 5 Fairy Gathering: Styling a Whimsical Ensemble PATTERNS APPENDIX: BEAD EMBROIDERY STITCHES RESOURCES CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, ABOUT THE AUTHOR