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| Doll
Magazine |
Doll Magazine offers informative articles and beautiful photographs to guide you to become an expert on every aspect of doll collecting. Issue after issue, Doll Magazine uncovers the new and the unusual to bring excitement to an enduring and collectible hobby. Whatever your level of involvement, from beginner to expert, Magazine has something of interest for you. Gallery featuring one-of-a-kind cloth dolls and animals, a comprehensive club listing in Join the Club, a Show Calendar listing of events in your area, and Products & Services introducing the latest tools for the trade
From contemporary to classics, Doll Magazine is renowned for their beautiful layouts of lovelies regardless of era! Covering the range from purchasing to small business to restoration and all points in between, it is absolutely required reading for doll enthusiasts! It is more comprehensive than Doll Reader, with delightful every-issue features like "Ask The Expert", an Antiques Roadshow-style feature where reader send in photos of their lovelies for ID help and valuation and "Auction Report", summarizing prices realized at recent specialty doll auctions.
You won't be disappointed, even if the price is a wee bit higher than the other one ... enjoy! Doll magazine is the perfect companion for people who love to make or collect cloth dolls, teddy bears, or animals. Each bimonthly issue contains how-to projects for all levels of skill, techniques on topics such as pattern drafting and needle-sculpting, profiles on some of the world's most recognized fabric-craft artists, plus a full-size pullout pattern section. Regular features include Inspirations.
Library patrons looking for magazine on how to dress dolls may bypass this title, but the serious doll
collector and indeed anyone interested in re-creating historical
costumes will find a gold mine of information. Doll magazine combines practical garment-making information and patterns with a social history of the time. All costumes are shown in color photographs and are modeled on dolls from the period. Highly recommended for doll, costume, and textile collections.
Doll collectors will delight as they pore through--and then sew--a gallery of costumes. There are day dresses with great gigot sleeves and full skirts; comfortable wrappers that would have been worn at home; walking costumes with smooth bodices, and a two-piece promenade dress with flowing expanses of fabric; and other exquisite fashions of the age, from France, Germany, and beyond. "...a gold mine of information....All costumes are shown in color photographs and are modeled on dolls from the period.
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