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Part 1 The timeless appeal of dolls: why people are fascinated with dolls; brief history of dolls through the ages; dolls as playthings and collector's items; dollmaking as a form of creative expression; development of doll styles; the emergence of the artist-dollmaker. Part 2 Materials, tools, equipment: fabric for dolls; fabrics for clothes; stuffing tools and equipment; decorative additions; paints; hair-making materials; sewing techniques; making and using patterns; general sewing technique for clothes making; safety. Part 3 The elements of the doll: types of bodies; hands; feet; types of heads; making faces; making hair; designing a doll. Part 4 Projects: simplest dolls - basic fabric doll, hanging decorative dolls; traditional rag dolls - an American prairie doll, a Victorian-style rag doll, a folk-art doll, an attic doll, a summer doll for a child, a teenage doll sitting in her papier-mache chair, a toddler doll; character and fantasy dolls - a mermaid, a witch, a golden angel, a flower fairy, a Twenties flapper, a Venetian jester, a modern teenager; special head techniques - a fantasy character, Father Christmas, traditional pierrot and herlequin, fully-jointed doll.