The Paper Doll Clothing was created as a way to make sure all little girls get to enjoy the classic designs their grandmothers and great grandmothers once cherished. Each piece is designed solely by the owner, Grace Byrd. She pulls details throughout the past century while also adding in her own modern twist. Each piece is meticulously designed even down to the buttons selected. The motto The Paper Doll follows is quality over quantity. Fabrics are always the highest level of quality grade Grace can find to fit the design she is creating. In addition, upon receiving designs each piece is steamed, inspected and packaged in our signature packaging to make each package received more than just a dress.
Next week, I probably will actually finish up that new doll. Until then, you can download combined color and black and white PDFs of all of my 2014 dolls and outfits for free! Also follow me on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest for beautiful saris, sneak previews and paperdoll thoughts. If you enjoy my work, I'd also appreciate your support through Patreon.
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It is easy, given that most photographs of the 1950s and 1960s are black and white, to forget that there was color back then. I really wanted to embrace color when I designed this dress. I was super inspired by a February 1959 Betsy McCall paper doll, but then I simplified things and changed some things too.
You can set your paper doll up somewhere where you can see it daily... in your kitchen, your bathroom, a dresser. You can take it with you, put it in your purse, set it in your car and it's a day to day reminder of God's love for us. And also a reminder how He DELIGHTS in our joy and creating. He sings over us!
Oh man, I would spend HOURS making these stupid dolls and dreaming about how I hoped to look and dress when I was a big kid teenager in a few years. I don't even know what I did with them after. Like, did we send them to our friends over AIM or something?
Edit 2: A few people have tried to click through to the dollmakers listed in the link I provided above and got MALWARE warnings. So maybe a good idea to just look, no touching! Sketchy sketchy.
A relaxed fit tiered dress with ruffle detail on lower tier. View A has short raglan sleeves and button back closure. View B is sleeveless with gathered front & back neckline, twill tape straps, and pulls over the head. Neckline (view A only) is finished with self bias binding.
Happy Fine Motor Friday! We are going a little crazy with contact paper lately after last week's sticky dresses and robot outfits. This contact paper doll dresses activity is pretty similar but my daughter loves it so much I though I'd share it too!
The same length of contact paper that we would use for a window collage or full size contact paper dress would yield about a dozen Barbie Dresses. I'm sure we will still do window collages and full size dresses or robots again some time but this was super fun and I could see a lot of kids loving this activity like my daughter does!
My daughter enjoyed decorating the dresses and cutting the yarn and I love that she was getting some fun scissors practice and using those tiny muscles in her hands and fingers to pick up and place all the yarn where she wanted it. Removing the decorations is also awesome fine motor skills work! If your child is able, she can also help assemble the dress. I cut the contact paper out for ours and asked my daughter to help pull the paper backing off.
Prep the dress: Out of a 5 1/2 inch square of contact paper, cut the dress top, as shown. (I eye-balled it, the part that wraps around the waist is about 1 1/2 inch tall.) Cut the skirt 6 1/2 inches wide by whatever length you want, measuring down from about Barbie's belly button area.
Dress the doll: Remove the paper backing from the dress top. Sticky side out, wrap the dress top waist band around the doll's waist and overlap the ends where they meet at her back. Fold the should straps over the doll's shoulders and stick them the to each other and the waist band if you wish. Next remove the paper backing of the dress and with the sticky side out, line up the top of the skirt with the bottom of the dress top. Wrap it around the doll's hips and overlap it at the back, tucking the contact paper around the waist a couple times to make darts.
Design the dress: Show your child how to snip the yarn, string and other items with the scissors and stick it on the paper. Depending on the strength of your contact paper, you may be able to remove the decorations and repeat with the same dress a few times.
An extraordinary lam evening coat embroidery allover with large images of colorful fruit was the top lot of the 1920s section of the auction. With kimono sleeves on the black silk ground structure, the dress had just the kind of exciting imagery that collectors and fashionistas seek from 1920s historic garb. The coat surpassed its $1/1,500 estimate to realize $8,610. After the auction, Karen Augusta, one of the principals of Augusta Auctions, found out from one of the two impassioned bidders that the fabric was designed by Raoul Dufy, the Fauve artist.
Paper dolls are figures cut out of paper or thin card, with separate clothes, also made of paper, that are usually held onto the dolls by paper folding tabs.[1] They may be a figure of a person, animal or inanimate object.[2] Paper dolls have been inexpensive children's toys for almost two hundred years. Today, many artists are turning paper dolls into an art form.
Paper dolls have been used for advertising, appeared in magazines and newspapers, and covered a variety of subjects and time periods. Over the years, they have been used to reinforce cultural beliefs regarding the appearance of ideal women.[3]
Some flat plastic figures are similar to paper dolls, like Colorforms figures and Flatsy dolls, but these are mere imitations and not considered true archetypal characteristics of the paper doll art form.[4] Magnetized versions of paper dolls have also been produced over the years.
Paper dolls have regained popularity with young children featuring popular characters and celebrities. Online and virtual paper dolls like KiSS, Stardoll and Doll makers also have a popular following, with users able to drag and drop images of clothes onto images of dolls or actual people.
Paper dolls have been around as long as there has been paper, perhaps hundreds or even thousands of years by some estimates. Faces or other objects were applied to the paper and they were used during religious rituals and ceremonies in the Asian cultures many centuries ago. The Japanese used paper for origami, the art of paper folding, and dating back to 800 AD they folded paper figurines in the shape of kimono. Balinese people made paper and leather into puppets since before the Common Era. Other cultures around the world have had paper formations or paper art, including in Poland, where they were called Wycinanki. These early types of paper figures differ from typical paper dolls today, as no clothes were made to be used with the dolls.
"The History and Adventures of Little Henry", by J. Belcher, was the first American toy that included paper dolls. Published in 1812, this book prompted children to act out various scenes with the paper dolls that were included.[3]
The biggest American producer of paper dolls, McLoughlin Brothers, was founded in early 1800 and was sold to Milton Bradley in 1920s. Around this time paper dolls became popular in the US and then grew in popularity in the following decades. The rise of paper doll production in the mid-19th century to mid-20th century was partially due to technological advances that made printing significantly cheaper.[3]
Book publishing companies that followed in the production of paper dolls or cut-outs were Lowe, Whitman, Saalfield and Merrill among others. Movie stars and celebrities became the focus in the early days of paper dolls in the USA. Paper dolls are still produced today and Whitman and Golden Co. still publish paper dolls.
Besides movie stars, women of leisure tended to be the women featured in paper doll form. As more women began to enter the work force in the twentieth-century, paper doll manufacturers began to produce dolls that represented career women. The women's rights movement in mid-20th century was partially responsible for instigating this change. Brides were another common figure often represented in paper doll form.[3]
When I was little, one of the most favorite things to play with was dress-up paper dolls, which kind of explains why I love playing dress-up to this day. I love coming up with outfits with complimentary colors, and also mixing with fun novelty prints. And I love to do the same with origami models and have a collection of pretty print origami papers also.
It is required to use multiple sheets, different sizes and shapes for different body parts, clothes and accessories (minimum of 8 sheets) for making one doll. But the author explains exactly what size/shape for each part and how to cut paper to a required size/shape from regular size of origami paper with diagrams and photos. There is a wide variety of Here are a couple of paper dolls that I made, using this book as reference.
This book was a big hit to some girls at school and camp where I teach. They were age between 8 and 12, semi-beginners to intermediate folders. With my help, it took each of them about two hours to fold each body part, clothes and assemble them. Here is a doll made by one of the campers. So cute!
I have had this little tutorial; How To Make Magnetic Dress Up Dolls in my mind for a while, thus have created a set of dress up dolls with a free dress up dolls template to cut out. Or you could cut them on Magnetic sheets or sticker paper for a great rainy day or travel activity.
The beauty of Cricut Design Space is that there are lots of blank canvases for such projects, its just a matter of having a little vision and knowing how to use the slice, group and flatten tools. And you can make you self a full set of unique magnetic travel dolls for all seasons. Or you can just cut and print my little set here and keep your eyes peeled for my seasonal updates. ff782bc1db