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Doll Finishing Tips and Tutorials

By Lesley Shepherd, About.com

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Many professional doll makers offer online tips and tutorials. These sites are all good references for beginners to study a wide variety of techniques.

1. Dana Burton Miniature Art

Dana Burton of Miniature art runs The Mini Doll List as well as Mini Doll U . There are lots of free tutorials and free back issues of an e zine with articles on fabrics, costumes, wigging, even remaking Breyer Horses for doll scenes.

2. Regalia Miniature Dolls

Regalia Miniature Dolls have several online picture tutorials inclujding How to fit stockings and How to Decorate Shoes.

3. Laurie Sisson/ The Foot

Laurie Sisson has several tutorials on how to paint various shoes on blank feet.

4. Doll Artist Workshop

Doll Artist Workshop have tutorials on parasols, baskets from hat straw, chenille bunny and duck slippers and shoe making.

5. Gina Bellous

Gina Bellous has tutorials on wigging, hatmaking and dying feathers for 1:12 scale hats

6. Katherine Dewey - Elvenwork

Katherine Dewey of Elvenwork has a great list of all the human body proportions compared to the head in her tips section, as well as information on sculpting animals and various polymer clay types.

7. Lucy Winsky Dolls

Lucy Winsky has a complimentary medieval dress pattern on her website to fit a 5 1/2 inch doll.

8. By Rachelle

Rachelle has a tutorial for a faux smocked nightgown.

9. La Petite Belle Patterns

Kathie Mendenhall of La Petite Belle Patterns has tutorials for how to make a man's cummerbund and bow tie as well as a simple doll's bouquet and shoes.

10. Gisele's Miniature Creations

Gisele's Miniature Creations has tutorials on purses, parasols, wigging and how to make shoes.

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