If you want to do adult female proportions doing things for half scale dress forms is a lot of fun. They don't have arms, heads or legs but they are a lot of fun to play with and have the added bonus of being able to use scaled down versions of patterns you already have and use (and those you've always wanted to play with) as opposed to having to seek out specific doll patterns. Half Scale forms can be found online from Truly Victorian Patterns, allbrands.com and from any of the major dress form makers.
Maggie Halberg -----Original Message----- From: Katy Bishop <katybisho...@gmail.com> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> Sent: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 1:24 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] doll costuming 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 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
