Create one-of-a-kind dolls in a primitive folk-art style for unique gifts and home décor. These primitive weathered and worn character dolls will inspire you to make your own. • Tips from an accomplished folk artist on how to design a unique primitive doll and how to translate that design into a finished creation • Techniques for "grunging" to give new materials an antique look • Detailed instructions and step-by-step photos for every step of the process, including creative ideas for hair, clothes, and accessories • Includes a gallery of the author's own popular creations

Create one-of-a-kind dolls in a primitive folk-art style for unique gifts and home décor. These primitive weathered and worn character dolls will inspire you to make your own.

Folk Art Primitive Doll Patterns takes the artist step-by-step to create 20 cloth dolls. Full-sized patterns are included for each doll along with a full color photograph of the completed doll. The book also includes clothing patterns. Folk Artist, Jennifer Terry creates many dolls each year and sold at art festivals, online and through word of mouth. Jennifer resides in the Alabama hill country, home to many talented folk artist and primitive craftsmen. Keeping with the purist folk art spirit, Jennifer doesn't use computer drawn images. She creates each pattern as the doll springs to life in her head. Folk Art Primitive Doll Patterns offers original hand drawn patterns sure to inspire, as you create your own folk art doll. Jennifer provides tips and techniques to hand paint a 3d effect on your dolls face as well as assembly tips. Folk Art Primitive Doll Patterns guides the doll artist through the process of creating a cherished family heirloom.

A design book of dolls, toys and doll clothes

This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Designer Jess Brown is known for her irresistible, starry-eyed rag dolls. In this inspiring book, Brown shares a custom pattern and simple instructions to sew, personalize, and accessorize your own rag doll. Illustrating the story behind these dolls, the book places emphasis on natural materials, vintage fabrics, beautiful notions, and quality craftsmanship. Make the dolls for the children—of all ages—in your life to love now and cherish for decades. After making the doll, follow Brown's patterns for darling accessories such as an apron, overcoat, and knickers.

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.