On Making Mending and Dressing Dolls Author:Clara H. Fawcett On MAKING MENDING and DRESSING by CLARA HALLARD with illustrations by the author 1949 H. I,. LINDQUIST PUBLICATIONS Publisher 2 WEST 46th STREET NEW YORK 19, N. Y. A dolls hospital of 1878 from an old engraving Dedicated to my SISTER VIOLET CONTENTS Chapter Page 1. A SIMPLE DOLL FOR A SMALL CHILD THE RAG DOLL 1 2. CLOTH DOLLS FOR COLLECTORS 10 3... more ». ON CARVING AND MODELING DOLLS 16 4. ON MENDING DOLLS, OLD AND NEW 23 5. THE STORY OF ALICE AND MABEL, OR THE RESTORATION OF A PARIAN BISQUE DOLL 34 6. THE STORY OF PRIVATE ROBERT EDWARD BALL OR THE RESTORATION OF A CHINA DOLL 44 7. SUGGESTIONS FOR NINETEENTH CENTURY DOLL COS TUMES 47 8. CHILDRENS CLOTHES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 71 9. ON DRESSING THE PERIOD DOLL 95 10. ON MAKING DOLLS TO REPRESENT AMERICAS FIRST LADIES 109 11. SHOES 139 12. SOME RARE OLD DOLLS 145 13. REPRODUCTION DOLLS 154 ILLUSTRATIONS Illustration Page Number Number 1. SOCK DOLL 1-a 1-d Pattern for Making Sock Doll 2 2. BEAN BAG DOLL 2-a 2-d Patterns for Making and Dressing Bean Bag Doll 2 3. ANNE, A Simple Rag Doll 4 3-a 3-d Pattern for Making Anne 4 3-e 3-i Patterns for Clothing Anne 4 3-j 3-n Hair Styles 5 0-1 Q-3 Making a Wig 5 4. SUSIE, A Rag Doll Circa 1900 6 4-a 4-d Pattern for Making Susie 6 4-f Susie, Completed 7 A. A Dress for Susie 7 B. A Bonnet for Susie 7 C. Dress Pattern 8 D. Bonnet Pattern 8 E. Susies Cap 8 F. Pattern for Cap 8 G. A and B. Pattern for Cape and Hood 9 H. An Old Dress Prom Susies Wardrobe 9 5. GENEVIEVE, A Nineteenth Century Rag Doll 10 5-a 5-d Pattern for Making Genevieve 11 A-l A-2 A Basque for Genevieve 12 A-3 Pattern for Basque 13 A-7 Back of Basque 13 8. Shoe Upper 13 9. Sole of Shoe 13 10. Completed Shoe 13 C. A Skirt for Genevieve 13 11. Skirt Pattern 20 6. WINIFRED, A Wire-Framed Doll 14 6-a Wire Frame and Padding 14 6-b Slip Covering for Head 14 7. DOROTHY, A Doll Carved by Claire Fawcett 16 7-1 Carving Tools 16 7-a 7-c. Parts of Carved Doll 16 8. SU-SU, A Doll with Carved Head, Arms and Legs, Stuffed Body, by Claire Fawcett 18 xi Page Number Number 9. SILLY, THE CLOWN, by Claire Fawcett 18 9-a Pattern for Sillys Costume 18 10. GEORGE, A Doll Modeled by Clara Hallard Fawcett 20 11. CAELOTTA, THE CLOTHESPIN LADY 20 a-d Making a Mold 21 12. JEAN Before and After - 23 13. JENNIE, An Old Papier MachS-Headed Doll Restored 24 14. EDITHA, A Restored China-Headed Doll 25 15. MARY ANN China-Head AND HER MENDED FOOT 26 16. ATROCIA Wax BECOMES CECELIA 27 16-c A Dress For Cecelia 28 17. GERALDINE, A Jointed Doll 29 17-a Geraldine in Sixteen Parts 30 17-b Restringing Geraldine 30 17-c Tools Used in Re-stringing Dolls 30 18. DOROTHY DEE, A French Jointed Doll in Original Outfit 31 19. TOMMY, A Bisque Swivel Head Which Needed a Body 32 19-a How Tommy Was Fitted Together 32 19-b Clothes for Tommy 33 20. ALICE AND MABEL, Twin Dolls 34 20-a Pattern for Alices Body 37 20-b Mending the Shoulder 37 20-c 1-3 Chemise, Pants, Petticoat 38 20-d Embroidery on Alices Best Petticoat 39 20-e Embroidery on Mabels Best Petticoat 39 20-f A Princess Dress for the Twin 40 20-g Pattern for Princess Dress 40 20-h 1 and 2 A Basque Outfit for the Twin 40 20-h-3 a, b, c Pattern for Basque 40 20-i 1 and 2 Another Basque Outfit 42 20-i-3 Pattern for the Second Basque Outfit 42 20-j A Quilt for Alice 41 21. MABEL IN PERSON 43 22. ALICE IN PERSON 43 23. PRIVATE ROBERT EDWARD BALL 45 23-a Body Pattern 45 23-b Leg 45 23- c-k Pattern for Soldier Boy Outfit 45 zii Illustration Page Number Number 24. GIGOT SLEEVES OF THE 1830 s FROM AN OLD SKETCH 48 25. 1 and 2 1. EVENING DRESS. 2. WALKING DRESS. From Godeys Ladys Book, 1828 48 26. COSTUME OF 1835. ANNE S. STEVENS, Editor of The Port land Magazine, 1835 49 27. RIDICULOUS HAIRDOS OF THE EARLY 1830 s 49 28. THE EVOLUTION OF THE BONNET 50 29. COSTUME OF 1840. Head from a contemporary portrait of Queen Victoria. - 50 30. HOME DRESS AND WALKING COSTUME OF 1850. Head in Sketch a from a contemporary portrait of Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie, French author and actress, 1819-1870...« less