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NEW CLOTH DOLL PATTERN - HOMESPUN MAGAZINE OFFER - MAGAZINES SOLD OUT, BUT GOOD NEWS - It is now past the 3 months allowance I was under agreement not to sell the pattern and instructions directly so these may be ordered below. Homespun Magazine $9.95 plus cheapest shipping. SOLD OUT, BUT YOU CAN ORDER THE DOLL AS A PATTERN WITH PHOTOS INCLUDED (see below).
As many of you may already be aware, I recently did a pattern for a new cloth doll for an Australian magazine (also sold in the US) called Homespun. Since many emailed to ask if I would have the magazine available, I am able to take advance orders for the magazine and for the kitted supplies which Homespun will be offering in the same issue. The doll is named Lottie and is 10", all cloth with embroidered face. If you preorder, you will not be charged until we ship, but I need an idea of quantities to get from the publisher. The magazine has patterns and instructions and a supplies list which you can fill yourself or order the kitted supplies, which, like my other kits, has all materials included to accompany the magazine instructions and patterns. This doll has one of my best patterns yet for a cloth doll body and reverts from a painted detail face to stitchery.
NEW - FULL PATTERN - Purchase the full pattern and more detailed instructions than in the magazine with photos for Lottie. $10.00 Add
to Cart
LOTTIE COMPLETE KIT - All supplies, fabrics and complete patterns with instructions - $48 Add
to Cart
FINISHED LOTTIE with wooden stand. Pre-Order. Add
to Cart
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NEW PAINTING SERVICE ~
I will now prepaint any molded doll (and hair if applicable). If the
doll also has molded hands and feet, these will be painted as well.
Style of painting must be consistent with my presentation of the doll
(no custom requests). Prices vary depending on the doll involved
and its complexity, but run from $45 - 65 and does not include cost
of parts which are purchased separately or are already in a kit you
are purchasing. If you add this item to your cart, we will email you
with a confirmation of actual price depending on the doll parts or
kit that this applies to. Add
to Cart Or, you may call us with inquiries.
Note: Stuffed dolls cannot be accomodated due
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MY PAPER DOLL SERIES
These are the first in a series of tiny paper dolls. This one is my Fashion Doll and is 2-1/2" in her wooden stand. The dolls and clothing have fronts and backs and the dolls themselves are laminated onto wooden backings cut exactly to their shapes. Tiny envelopes come with them to hold their three outfits and accessories. Although meant to be display items with the clothing left uncut, outfits will fit if cut out. Instructions included and kit has all supplies.
NOTE: Large versions in front were made just for "advertising" and shown here so you can see the detail better - the real paperdolls, in the background, are small so that the larger ones were for catching attention at a recent show. Naturally, everyone wants this size too, just for display. You can order the larger as is (no other clothes ).
2-1/2" Fashion Doll Paper Dolls Gift Boxed Finished Sets - $28 Add
to Cart
Kitted Fashion Doll Paper Dolls - $18* Now 50% off Add
to Cart
*NEW SPECIAL PRICE ON KITS IN STOCK DUE TO A CHANGE. I have found a very special small box for storing your paper dolls and all newer kits will have this addition plus a color label for the box. All kits in stock now are 50% off until sold - they do not have the new box.
New Fashion Doll Kitted Paper Dolls with Box - $18 Add
to Cart
6-1/2" Tall Display Model (has front and back) $18 Add
to Cart
NEW - Hitty Paperdoll is only 1-3/4" tall, has front and back applied to a wooden cut-out and a painted wooden stand. She has 4 outfits with front and back views and comes in a tiny matchbox. Photos available soon.
Kit
$18 Add
to Cart
Finished
$28 Add
to Cart
SPECIAL OFFER
• Paper Doll Cutting Scissors - 4" extra thin-tipped scissors with large loop handles. Special Price (regularly $29, purchased with GW Paper Dolls, 20% off) $23 Add
to Cart
• Magnification for Cutting Paper Dolls (regularly $29, purchased with GW Paper Dolls, 20% off) $23 Add
to Cart
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2-1/2" Paper Doll Sets shown in background.
Shown in foreground is the 6-1/2" version.
New Hitty Paper Doll wtih 4 front and back outfits and matchbox storage. |
SPECIAL EDITION 10" TUCK COMB DOLL KIT
This doll was one of my online classes and this offer is of a boxed kit with molded papier mache parts, paints and other finishing supplies, body and undies fabrics and lace, wool stuffing plus, over 60 pages of the class material, gift tag and all patterns. You supply her dress material(s) and trimming. Instructions for piercing her ears is included or you can order this step done for you. Note, she becomes simply a nice doll of the early 1800's if you sand off her comb.
Tuck Comb Boxed Kit - $95.00 Add
to Cart
Optional special wood stand kit $18 Add
to Cart
Tuck Comb Extra Molded Parts $48 Add
to Cart
Pre-pierced ears and findings to make your own earrings. $3 Add
to Cart
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This doll is Louisa and this is her story . . .
“It is 1858 and I have just received my first
store-bought doll.”
The new plaid has been found and it is a nice brown - a more fitting tiny scale in a very fine drapable fabric.
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MY NEW DOLL - My entire career of 35 years began with a small 8" doll hand press molded in primitive molds I made before I knew anything about dolls or moldmaking. I made thousands of these dolls and stopped forever their production in about 1995 with the idea that someday I would make another doll like them but in molded papier mache. This doll is the first of these dolls.
The theme of this first edtion is sort of snap shots in history. Every edition will be extremely limited - this one in this fabric is limited to 10. All signed and numbered with story tags. Dolls have such details as hand crocheted lace and snoods, real leather shoes and perfectly tailored outfits and accessories. They represent all that I have learned in my 35 years of dollmaking.
Louisa - A 9” papier mache doll with her new Greiner doll, a papier mache doll made in this time period by German immigrant, Ludwig Greiner. These were some of the first American made dolls available commercially. Small Greiner has papier mache head and shoulderplate on a tiny painted cloth body with red stockings and even thumbs on her tiny leather-like hands. Louisa has English mohair wig with hand crocheted snood, hand crocheted lace color and other laces, high buttoned leather shoes, silk stockings and her chair has a split ash seat.
Limited Edition Set (two dolls and chair) $595. Introductory price of 20% off ($475). (If you order this doll, a 20% deposit will be charged with balance due at shipping).
NOTE: The brown plaid on the doll pictured sold out faster than anticipated in the first edition of 10 dolls. After a long search, I finally found the perfect replacement. Same browns but in a smaller plaid on a nice drapable fabric perfect for this small doll. If you would like to be on an approval waiting list, click this link below and you will get one of the remaining dolls in this edition of 24 of Louisa. LOUISA IS NOW SOLD OUT.
Watch for a very small edition of 12 Louisa-style dolls in late May. This is due to an unforeseen problem with the molds made for the production of Louisa where I had made the working molds and actually molded, painted and attached bodies for the first 12 Louisas only to find the new mold making material caused the dolls to come out too small for all of the rest of her clothing, wigs, snoods and lace collars. So, a new mold had to be made for Louisa and these 12 dolls are in waiting to be brought out as some other doll all together who is slightly smaller. |
ORNAMENT DOLL NO. 5
(2008)
TINY
QUEEN ANNES ~ TINY QUEEN ANNES
~ These dolls required an amazing amount of engineering to manage all of the necessary detail while still maintaining my standards of quality. These ladies are number 5 in
the series of Historical Doll Ornaments, but like the tiny Izannah,
Joel Ellis, Hitty and Mason & Taylor before her, most people choose
to order them without the hanging loop to be just a small doll or perhaps
a doll for a bigger doll. Like the larger historical
dolls they are drawn from, they have hand carved wooden and jointed
bodies complete with tiny individual fingers (a noted characteristic
of these dolls) with a papier mache molded head. Outfits are entirely
constructed in layers of real hand dyed silks and ultra-fine imported
laces. Hair is real mohair fiber. Choice of blue or old rose color
schemes. $175 ($30 deposit taken at time of order, balance on shipping).
QA Ornament in blue set with no hanging loop Add
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QA Ornament in rose set with no hanging loop Add
to Cart
QA Ornament in blue set with hanging loop Add
to Cart
QA Ornament in rose set with hanging loop Add
to Cart
3" Queen Anne in Rose or Blues
ORNAMENT DOLL NO. 5
(2008-2009)
A JOINTED PEG WOODEN TUCK COMB
This tiny doll is a 3" jointed peg wooden Tuck Comb doll with a papier mache head and dressed all in hand-dyed silks. $120
($20 deposit taken at time of order, balance when shipped).
Tuck Comb with no
hanging loop Add
to Cart
Tuck Comb with hanging loop Add
to Cart
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Photo Below
Available Mid-January 2010
Patterns for QA Doll:
Make a Gentleman
QA Under Garments of the Day
QA Caps, Hats and Other Accessories of the Day
QA Sacque Back Gown
QA Peplum Style Two-Piece Gown
All patterns above $9.50 |
QUEEN ANNE LIMITED EDITION FULL
KITS -
I am presenting a very special assembly of this most favored doll.
This is an heirloom kit, complete in every detail. The doll is
my own 10" papier mache version of these extraordinary
wooden dolls from the 1700 - early 1800's. The kit includes: molded
papier mache parts, a special wooden stand, wigging materials with
fine English mohair for her wig, all paints, a face template to
aid in painting, many pages of detailed instructions with sewing
on silk directions, patterns and a gift tag. Fabrics for her day
cap, open panniered skirt gown, stomacher, under petticoat, slip
petticoat, pantalets and optional silk slippers are all part of
the kit and include imported silks, fine batiste, fine linen look
muslin, French cotton laces, English netting and embroidery flosses.
The best part is that the silks, other fabrics and laces included
the kit have all been hand dyed for you so you are set to begin.
Available in two color set choices:
BLUES SET QUEEN ANNE COMPLETE KIT $150 Add
to Cart
ROSE SET QUEEN ANNE COMPLETE KIT $150 Add
to Cart
Note: Colors are similar to those shown
on the tiny Queen Anne Ornament size dolls shown above.
NEW - BASIC
QUEEN ANNE MINI KIT - Realizing how many people
may want to make this doll but not want the investment of all
the hand-dyed silks, etc. above, this kit provides only the
basics and you supply all the rest from your own supplies.
Kit contains the same molded parts, mohair for the wig and
the detailed patterns and instructions. You supply your own
paints, fabrics and notions.
QUEEN ANNE MINI-KIT $72 Add
to Cart
Recommended:
STAND KIT for Queen Anne $18 Add
to Cart
DOLL'S SEWIES FOR ACCESSORIES (scaled
for QA) ~ A
set of fancy working miniature brass scissors with patterns
for a tiny scissors case, flat tomato pincushion and a strawberry
emery. All items are well under an inch and easy to make from
silk (or cotton) scraps. They are nice to hang from doll's
apron waist on a silk ribbon.
Kit with Scissors $12 Add
to Cart
OTHER ITEMS - Cotton netting, laces, silk ribbons, paints, paint
overdye, silks and dyes for silks available on Supplies page.
EXTRA MOLDED PARTS (Head/torso, lower arms and lower legs) $48 Add
to Cart
PRE-PAINTING of the Molded Parts by GW - add $60, which includes
wig cap made for you. Add
to Cart
FINISHED QUEEN ANNE DOLL - 10-1/2" as shown below. English mohair
wig, all hand-dyed silks and imported cotton laces. Comes with
pocket, under petticoat, pantalets, silk slippers to match gown
and wooden stand. $595 Blues Add
to Cart or Roses Add
to Cart (3 week delivery on a blue version, immediate on a rose version, if you click to buy, a 20% deposit
is charged with balance upon shipment).
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ORNAMENT NO. 7
(2009-2010)
A GREINER DOLL (3-1/2")
Following the tradition set, there will be
a new doll in time for the holidays 2009 for the first 24 people on the growing list. All other orders (we are now well past the first 24) will be sent out in January. She
will be a Greiner papier mache doll of the type made and patented in
1858 by Ludwig Greiner. She will be in a period dress. Price $130
Clicking the add to cart button will put you on the list in the order
received. A small earnest deposit will be charged of $15 until your order is ready to be shipped when we will charge the balance. See the photograph below and also scroll up to the Louisa Doll with the same Greiner (but shown in a different color dress) in her lap which will give you a better idea of her scale.
(Looped or no loop)
Greiner Doll with no hanging loop Add
to Cart
Greiner Doll with hanging loop Add
to Cart
NEW DOLL (#8) FOR 2010-2011
Hint: Many people start getting on the list for the next year's ornament doll even before I know what it is. If you would like to get your name in early for the next one, email us. To be on this list, we will need to take a $15 earnest deposit which will be refundable if you do not like the doll that gets chosen. Click on one of the links below to get on the early list.
Next Year's Doll with no hanging loop Add
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Next Year's Doll with hanging loop Add
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THE LADIES HOME
SEWING COMPANION - A PINCUSHION DOLL
A doll sewing caddy/pincushion taken from antique ones (the concept),
a cookie cutter woman I love from an antique collection (the outline)
and antique paper doll styles of the late 1800's (the underwear look).
Body outlines, hair and face designs are silkscreened on to body fabric,
but you can use the paper patterns included to make more dolls. There
is not much machine work as most of the doll is finished by hand. Her
arms will be drawn and sewn from the arm pattern and her skirt is stuffed
to become part of her whole figure. The apron, which has a pocket for
small scissors, and her bodice are appliqued on. The needle keeper (shaped
like an old-fashioned pocket once worn around the waists to hold various
everyday sundries, especially sewing tools); and the strawberry emery
hang from her waist. Her broad hips become the pincushion. All of her
features and hair are simple and relaxing embroidery. Under everything
are wood forms to define her shape and give her standing presence. Her
oval wooden base has two spool spindles fitted out with old-style wooden
spools which you wind with thread for display or you can use the spindles
for your own actual sewing threads. If you wish to make more and do not
have or wish to purchase the additional wooden parts or silkscreened
bodies, you can use the included patterns to make your own. She is intended
to be solidly stuffed with wool (the best pincushion stuffing), but you
can use wool for upper parts down to below hips and other stuffing for
lower skirt.
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FINISHED PINCUSHION DOLL
in Browns $295.00 Add
to Cart
FINISHED PINCUSHION DOLL in Blues $295.00 Add
to Cart
FULL KIT - Has all fabrics, wood pieces, silkscreens
and supplies.
Full Kit in Browns $68 Add
to Cart
Full Kit in Blues $68 Add
to Cart
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MINI KIT - Has all wood pieces, silkscreens
and supplies - you supply your own fabrics. $52 Add
to Cart
EXTRA WOOD PARTS $27 Add
to Cart
EXTRA SILK SCREEN BODIES $3.50 Add
to Cart
WOOL STUFFING - Special price on necessary wool stuffing to encourage people
to use it for the best results (8 yards). $5 Add
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MAKE YOUR OWN DOLLS - Even if your first love
is cloth dolls, eventually there comes a fascination with molded dolls.
Papier mache has long been a favorite due to its warmth and ability
to look less hard than china or other fired pieces, although its durability
is lengendary. Many dollmakers like to work in a hand medium such as
PaperClay or even press PaperClay into press molds. But even accomplished
sculptors admit that it is very hard to start from scratch. Getting
everything in the right proportion is hard enough, but there is also
calculating so that the doll will fit a certain pattern and that is
without even considering symmetry and pleasing placement of features.
So, I have taken a very basic doll head/shoulderplate shape with corresponding
simplistic lower arms and legs and created a basic doll which can be
left as is and simply painted with painted hair, or painted but wigged
with fiber hair, PaperClay added sculpted hair which creates unlimited
possibilities, or experiment with adding finer detail in eyes, nose,
lips, and even fingers. This doll is a nice-to-sew-for 11" size
and can easily be used to make a Queen Anne, an Izannah Walker look,
a Peg Wooden or Milliner's Model, Greiner types or other genres with
highly molded hair or simply a doll from your own imagination. I have
provided body patterns and a set of basic costume pattern pieces which
will make practically any style of gown, unders, aprons, bonnets and
shoes that you can use to execute your own designs. Adding PaperClay
to molded papier mache parts is fun and easy. You can start with already
molded parts, a package of PaperClay and the instructions and patterns,
or go one step further and get a mold of your own which will provide
many castings. I am now importing the best casting material for plaster
molds that I believe is available. You can read more about what is
offered on the Supplies page about 3/4 of the way down the page. We
even offer the special hardwood sculpting tool that is so essential
when working with paper mediums and made from our own apple wood. Everything
is available separately or an introductory package to get you
started. This
includes a set of molded parts to start, a set of molds, a quart of
the casting medium Flumo, my special wooden tool, a package of PaperClay,
a set of necessary drill bits for sew holes and all patterns and instructions.
There is even a link to many photos of genres of old dolls to be inspired
from and to look at for your ideas.
Package Starter Set would be
about $160 purchased separately. Price $150. Limited
quantities. Add
to Cart
Special Wood Tool $12.00 Add
to Cart
Flumo Casting Medium - Gallon
size - must be shipped separately with its own
shipping rate added ($12.50 for most addresses).
$42 Add
to Cart Quart size - does not need to be shipped
separately from rest of order. $16 Add
to Cart
PaperClay 8
oz. $6.95 Add
to Cart
Set of Make Your Own Molds with
Instructions $75 Add
to Cart
Pre-Molded Parts: Head, Hands
and Feet. $38 Add
to Cart
Instructions and Body Patterns for
MYO Doll $3.00 Add
to Cart
Pattern Set for all clothing including
body $8.00 Add
to Cart
Set Replacement Drill Bits (3 sizes) $3.50 Add
to Cart
Read more info on Supplies Page.
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NEW
IZANNAH WALKER KIT OR PATTERN (13" Doll) - Unlike my other folk
style Izannahs whose heads are sewn and stuffed stockinette, I wanted
a doll body whose head would provide a canvas for a portrait style
painting of her beloved face with corkscrew curls and downcast eyes.
For this I wanted flat weave cloth for the whole doll and a separate
shoulderplate. This doll is taken from an actual historical example
wearing just this same outfit. The period dress with cotton battenburg
trim and the printed apron are all part of the kitted supplies. The
pattern by itself has instructions for making an apron from other fabric
or a pre-printed apron can be ordered below. This is the best pattern
I have ever presented. The shape is wonderful and has been long and
hard in the making. I am working on (still) a molded cloth face Izannah,
but I wanted one that had the charm of simple painting that could be
achieved without complicated molds.
PATTERN $18 Add
to Cart (Aprons sold separately).
PATTERN PLUS ALL KITTED SUPPLIES Includes
printed apron. (Limited quantities) $42 Add
to Cart
SEPARATELY
AVAILABLE APRONS TO GO WITH PATTERN $16.00 Add
to Cart
EXTRA IRON-ON FACE/CURLS SETS - 4 sets $1 Add
to Cart
BATTENBURG TAPE - Use this as a trim on Izannah Walker dresses or other
mid to late 1800's styles. All cotton woven decorative tape 1/4" wide.
$2.00 yard Add
to Cart
FINISHED
DOLL with Wooden
Stand $495 Add
to Cart
LIMITED EDITION SET -
Doll is the same 13" oil painted cloth with
a 2-compartment cloth carry case, cloth bound book about the history
of IZW dolls and her own 3" tiny painted cloth Izannah. This ltd ed set
has different clothing taken from actual historical Izannahs which includes,
2 outfits, cloak and bonnet, 3 piece undies, pocket, emery. $975
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PRINTED DOLL APRONS - There is something so dear about doll aprons,
bonnets and shoes. These are aprons popular in the late 1800's which
show up on many antique dolls, notably, Izannah Walkers, Springfield
Woodens and many others. This is a common design - there were many
- that I adapted and now print out in brown on extra fine overdyed
batiste (for drape). These are mini-kits to make your own with sewing
template, instructions, pre-printed and pre-overdyed (antique white)
apron fronts plus lining and button for waistband. Even Hitty has one
her size. Lengths are given so you can better gauge the size your doll
might need.
Apron for 6" dolls (3-1/2" top
to bottom) $12.00 Add
to Cart
Apron for 7-8" dolls (4" top to bottom) $14.00 Add
to Cart
Apron for 8-9" dolls (4-1/2" top to bottom) $14.00 Add
to Cart
Apron for 9-10" dolls (5" top to bottom) $16.00 Add
to Cart
Apron for 12" dolls (6" top to bottom) $16.00 Add
to Cart
Apron for 14" dolls (6-3/4" top to bottom) $16.00 Add
to Cart
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12" CLOTH FASHION DOLL KIT OR PATTERN
This is a long awaited
painted cloth doll in one of my favorite pattern styles that produces
a well rounded three-dimensional body if stuffed properly. The usual
difficulties encountered with face painting are completely eliminated
by the use of an iron-on transfer followed by the use of colored pencils,
all of this on a pre-painted skin surface. The mohair fiber hairstyle
has two options, one a simple rolled style and the other, preferred
for its charm, is making a snood which holds all her hair with almost
no styling. Complete instructions for making either a simple netting
snood or a hand crocheted one are included. Her outfit consists of
a typical two-piece jacket and skirt of the Fashion Doll Era with the
skirt having the bustle look in back with a longer trailing skirt,
and basic undies, the whole ensemble topped off with a simple constructed
bonnet that nicely frames her face with instructions for a cloth-covered
hatbox.
PATTERN $18 Add
to Cart
PATTERN PLUS ALL KITTED SUPPLIES (Limited
quantities) $48 Add
to Cart
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12" FASHION DOLL KIT (Molded Papier Mache Version)
The long awaited kit with accompanying patterns for outfits is in the works and due to be ready for holiday delivery on a limited quantity of 12. These have molded papier mache head hands and lower legs with a shapely cloth body between. This is a new refined mold of the doll made in last year's online class (better shaped head for under the mohair wig and better shaping to join to cloth body), but otherwise the same. Kit comes with all that you need for the basic doll, with wig and undies and shoes. The introductory price will include free patterns for the two-piece walking dress, the day dress (shown), two bonnets with hatboxes, and a new outfit pattern which will be available separately in early 2010 for those who already have all the rest from the class.
Pre-Order Kit with Free Patterns $95 . Add
to Cart
NEW - I had a number of snoods crocheted for another doll and they were made wrong size for that doll, but fit this doll perfectly. I am selling them at cost until they are gone. These are brown hand crocheted snoods of very fine rayon sewing thread with silk ribbons threaded through for tying. $12 each Add
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This doll is best with a special stand for her. This is a wooden stand that you finish by staining or painting with instructions included. $18 Add
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