Many professional doll makers offer online tips and tutorials. These sites are all good references for beginners to study a wide variety of techniques.
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.
Doll Artist Workshop have tutorials on parasols, baskets from hat straw, chenille bunny and duck slippers and shoe making.
Gina Bellous has tutorials on wigging, hatmaking and dying feathers for 1:12 scale hats
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.
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.
Gisele's Miniature Creations has
tutorials on purses, parasols, wigging and how to make shoes.