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Below are some books and guides about dollhouses.
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By Jean Nisbett
Sterling
Paperback (128 pages)
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“The perfect guide to select your first project. Includes instructions for a dolls’ house, the interiors, furnishings, fixtures and even miniature gardens.”—DOLLMAKING.
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By Tally Oliveau
Quarry Books
Paperback (128 pages)
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This book takes the artistic approach of assemblage and collage, and combines it with the long-loved tradition of making doll houses--but these doll houses are anything but traditional! Begun as an artistic challenge between a group of talented friends, these mixed-media doll houses include beautiful castles, undersea fantasy-lands, gothic attics, inspiring tree houses and much more. Authors Tally Oliveau and Julie Molina share a host of interesting alteration techniques while showing readers how to construct beautiful, fantasy doll houses. Readers learn to how to construct or repurpose found boxes into rooms and houses, how to decorate interior surfaces, how to build miniature furnishings, how to make their own paper dolls, and how to embellish their houses using a variety of imaginative materials. |
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By Sue Heaser
David & Charles Publishers
Paperback (64 pages)
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This book contains an extensive selection of step-by-step projects for making miniature food items for the 1/12 scale dolls' house. The realistic-looking meals range from simple fruit, vegetables and bread to "celebration food" and banquets. A comprehensive section, featuring the step-by-step techniques of working with polymer clay, involves shaping the clay, mixing colours, texturing and finally, baking it. The necessary tools and materials are also detailed, as well as how to put them to their most effective use. Colour photographs show the finished items and display ideas and instruction are given, from bread baskets to a complete table setting. |
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By Jean Nisbett
Guild of Master Craftsman
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Veteran dolls’ house maker, expert on all things miniature, and prolific author Jean Nisbett presents a comprehensive volume that brings all the elements of her previous work together. The result: a complete guide to the making and furnishing of all kinds of dolls’ houses, large and small, from the leading writer in the field. Incorporating practical advice, expert tips, and inspiring profiles of top artisans, it covers both the standard 1/12th scale and the increasingly popular 1/24th. And there’s an incredible range of styles, from fabulous palaces and elegant mansions to country cottages and Shaker homes. Breathtaking photos display imaginative decorations, period rooms and room boxes, holiday settings, outdoor scenes, and charming collections of diminutive china and other trinkets. |
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By Sue Heaser
Cassell
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“Here’s the definitive guide to manufacturers, tools, safety, and crafting. See how to intermix colored clays to obtain an even wider range of hues, and the different types of paints and varnishes...for adornment. Techniques for softening the clay, balling and rolling it, working with a knife, and sanding will assure good results.”—Doll Castle News.
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By Stephanie Finnegan
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Hardcover (144 pages)
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The unique dimensions make this book a miniature dollhouse. The outside hard cover with the brick house opens in the center like many dollhouses to reveal the ornate interior of the book. On the pages inside, the hundreds of stunning pictures show every detail of the most amazing dollhouses from around the world. This striking package will be irresistible to collectors and dollhouse fanatics. Covering the gamut of historical periods and international designs, each two-page spread explores a select architectural style from a medieval castle to a space-age apartment. Examples of miniature businesses and stores from bakeries to butcher shops to corporate offices offer something for every type of doll house enthusiast, young and old. Photographs showcase both the exteriors, interiors and the dolls themselves. The book focuses on the life-like details that delight dollhouse devotees-from running faucets to cut marks on an inch-tall chopping block to leather-bound books with pages of flawlessly miniscule text. Descriptions of every house and all its hidden secrets accompany each spread. |
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Greenberg Pub
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More than 200 wonderfully clever tips include information on furniture construction, roofs, curtains, eating utensils, and much more. |
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By Eloise Piper
Chilton Book Company
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Transform simple cloth dolls into lively characters with carefully-defined features. A basic cloth doll pattern is the basis for three "Sculpted" variations in beginning level with brushed-on gesso, intermediate with modeling paste, and advanced with polymer clay. |
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By Thelma R. Newman
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Instruction for the beginner as well as the advanced craftsman; design settings; basic boxes; lighting; uses of such new materials as acrylic, foam, plastic, as well as fabrics, glass, ceramics, and metal. 700 photographs, including 23 in full color. |
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By Faith Eaton
Harry N. Abrams
Hardcover (167 pages)
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Small-scale replicas have an enduring fascination, creating as they do the world in miniature. Among the most popular replicas are miniature houses, which through the centuries have been carefully built, furnished with exquisitely wrought pieces, and peopled by fashionable dressed dolls. These houses, though occasionally created for children, have more often been commissioned by adult connoisseurs as displays for exquisite miniature craftsmanship, and they survive as time capsules of their period, depicting different modes of interior design.
This lavishly illustrated volume presents some of the finest miniature houses from across Europe and the United States to show a variety of traditions and national styles. Among these are Princess Augusta Dorothea's re-creation of her own 18th century German court, complete with chapel and convent; a Dutch miniature house built into a display cabinet; American silent-film star Colleen Moore's fairy-tale castle with working fountains and a diamond-and-emerald chandelier; and an English stately home, realistic outside as well as in.
The 131 photographs in 'The Miniature House' illustrate a remarkable sequence of rooms from attics to basements and focus on their incredibly detailed furniture and decorative elements - from a tiny Chippendale chair to a cut-glass scent bottle. A final chapter looks at the dolls that inhabit these setting; in addition to their fascination for us as miniature actors on a stage, they provide a unique opportunity to study period clothing in detail, as well as the social hierarchy in households of past centuries. |
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