This website sells their patterns for doll's costumes: www.agesdesigns.com/
I've seen her display room (she is making up all the patterns for a display) and it is spectacular. Katy On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:56 PM, cw15147-hcos...@yahoo.com < cw15147-hcos...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Emily, > > When I sewed doll clothes (which I don't so much anymore), I did all the > patterning from scratch (because I wanted to). I've run across various > doll clothing-related things, though, I two come to mind. > > First, if you intend to sew for the Barbie-size/style figure, then there > are > actually commercial patterns available, including from one or more of > the Big 3...er, 2, I guess. I vaguely recall that one of them did the > Gone With The Wind curtain dress, and other hoop-era dresses. > > > Second, on a visit to Lacis in Berkeley I picked up these wonderful > Victorian > dress patterns for a doll, but in they included the pattern for the doll > herself. I'm not quite sure where I put these patterns, but they're great, > very detailed. > > > If you could narrow down what type of doll you want to sew for, that would > be helpful. They range in size an shape as much (or maybe more) than > people do, and each "style" of doll comes with a whole range of > resources. > > > > >________________________________ > > From: Emily Gilbert <emchantm...@gmail.com> > >To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> > >Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 10:23 AM > >Subject: Re: [h-cost] doll costuming > > > >Hi Claudine, > > > >Websites, books, patterns, etc. that you've found useful. I'm more > >interested in making clothing for an existing doll than in making the > >doll itself, and I'd prefer the kind of doll that's proportioned as an > >adult woman. I've read the book Sewing Victorian Doll Clothes: > >Authentic Costumes from Museum Collections, by Michelle Hamilton, and > >found it very interesting. > > > >Thanks! > >Emily > > > > > >On 12/10/2011 10:29 AM, cw15147-hcos...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> Hi Emily, > >> > >> I've done some doll costuming. What kind of resources are you looking > for? > >> > >> > >> > >> Claudine > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> ________________________________ > >>> From: Emily Gilbert<emchantm...@gmail.com> > >>> To: Historical Costume<h-cost...@indra.com> > >>> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:15 AM > >>> Subject: [h-cost] doll costuming > >>> > >>> I know some people on this list do doll costuming as well as the > full-sized version. Can you recommend any good resources for the curious > novice? > >>> > >>> Emily > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> h-costume mailing list > >>> h-costume@mail.indra.com > >>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> h-costume mailing list > >> h-costume@mail.indra.com > >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >h-costume mailing list > >h-costume@mail.indra.com > >http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian katybisho...@gmail.com www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
