A data base containing hundreds of photos, authentic patterns and articles about period costume from the Middle Ages
through the Early 20th Century.
A very comprehensive compilation of links to all kinds of Costuming Resources Online.
The Costumer's Manifesto by Tara Maginnis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of theater at the University
of Alaska, Fairbanks, is one of the World Wide Web's largest, and most eclectic, costume sites.
This website contains over 100 content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Textiles
and Social History.
The Darien Historical Society is -dedicated to collecting and preserving materials of historical value
and educating the public about our heritage. The Costume collection contains photos of clothing in the collection from the
early 18th century to the mid 1930's. Also displayed on the website are photos from the Quilt Collection.
Collections of the Museum of the City of New York, including a Costume and Textiles Collection, featuring the Couture of
the House of Worth.
The Met's Costume Institute Website features photos of 50 items
from the permanent collection as well as photos from current and past special exhibits. A small sampling includes: Goddess,
a current exhibit exploring how classical dress affected fashion from the 18th century onward, Blithe Spirit:The
Windsor Set, which displays a collection of evening wear of the French Couture from 1935-1940, and Extreme
Beauty: The Body Transformed, which presents a unique opportunity to observe fashion's most outrageous innovations
and strategies of dress that have shaped and altered the body's silhouette to conform to shifting concepts of beauty
Sense and Sensibility
A collection of original photos, magazines, ads, illustrations, scanned by the site's owner to share with us.
Explore the history of hair fashion in a library of beautiful historical hairstyles.
This site contains images of primary source materials focusing on the cut and construction of women's garments with excerpts
containing cutting diagrams, specific construction details, and measurements for full-sized garments.
Fashion Plate Collection from the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.
Tutorials
Dana Sippel of "Miniature Art", founder of the MSAT Miniature Doll List and the new MinidollU, has an entire section of
her website titled Learn with links to a "Newbie" section designed especially for beginners,
Archives containing numerous tutorials from past issues of her e-zine "Frills and Fancy" and Current
Projects and classes.
Wonderful tutorials illustrating china painting, greenware resculpting, shoe making, jewelry making, wigging for ladies,
men, and children, parasols (open and closed) and a fringed baluchon purse.
Tutorials on how to design and print fabric, Scarlett's Barbecue dress, china painting babies, Christmas Madonna &
Child, wet greenware cleaning, Santa ornament, fantasy fairy, fantasy mermaid, casting miniature doll molds, cleaning
& preparing greenware, assembling a miniature doll, French handsewing by machine, four different doll costumes and millinery
in miniature.
Gina's site has excellent tutorials on china painting, working with feathers, wigging, making hats, sculpting a miniature
doll and making a plaster mold.
Stacy's Tutorial page gives how-tos for a lovely Christmas Project, Eleanore Tutorial to dress a lady, Draping, Gloved
arms, Seamless Shoulders Assembly and how to create Faux Sheer Hose.
Tutorial to create a doll costume from a picture by Lee Menconi-Steiger
The Dollmaker
The Dollmaker Tutorials by Barb Seymour. Not specifically for miniature dolls, there are tutorials on restoration
and repair, working with porcelain, painting, cloth dolls, sculpting, jewelry, wig making and shoemaking.
Sculpting facial expressions. Step by step photos showing the creation of facial expressions. Not specifically for miniature
dolls.
A sculpting tutorial which shows step by step photos of a doll sculpted from Prosculpt. Not specifically for
miniature dolls.
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