Product Description: I need not explain how these Shadows were suggested, to any one who has seen WILKIE'S picture, "The Rabbit on the Wall." But by what pains they were invented can never be revealed; for it is known to my tortured digits alone, and they, luckily for me, are dumb...read more

Product Description: Arnoldi (associate curator of African Ethnology and Art, Smithsonian Institution) weaves a vivid account of a West African theater tradition from the perspectives of the performers, the audiences, and the local youth associations who make elaborate puppet masquerades and sculpted masks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Provides instructions for making and using instant puppets, rainy day puppets, professional puppets, special puppets, and novelty puppets. (view table of contents)

In this unique and beautiful book, beloved doll-designer Barbara Willis guides readers through various approaches to doll design and basic and advanced construction techniques. Through the creation of three complete step-by-step projects, readers will develop color boards, learn to use vintage images, create both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional cloth dolls, learn sophisticated costuming techniques, and gain knowledge of elaborate soft sculpting. A gallery shares the inspirational work of several well-known doll artists who have created their own versions of each project. Complete patterns and templates are included.

Product Description: This cool and creepy box contains everything you need to start making an adorably horrifying army of scary felt creatures! Featuring a book with illustrated step-by-step instructions and all of the materials you need to make eight delightfully scary monsters...read more

Product Description: This zombielicious box contains everything you need to start making an adorably horrifying army of scary felt creatures! Featuring a book with illustrated step-by-step instructions and all of the materials you need to make eight delightfully scary monsters...read more

Product Description: This gnometastic box contains everything you need to start making a garden full of gnomes. They may be here to steal from you or protect your earthly treasures, but you won't find out which until you make them! This box set contains all of the materials for eight adorable gnomes, plus an illustrated book with clear step by step instructions...read more

Product Description: Celebrate the decorative intricacy of tiled mosaics in your next quilting or sewing project. Author Paula Doyle proves how easy it can be to get perfect precision patchwork on a small scale with her piecing techniques. Create more than 30 different complex-looking blocks that make for wonderfully colorful patterns...read more

Product Description: Kindle the imagination with these loveable handmade fabric toys! Inspired by vintage 1940s patterns, projects include dolls, softies, pillows, puppets, and little girl's handbag. Learn toy-making tips to give your creation personal style and a sweet disposition...read more

Product Description: It's a simple equation: old sock + craft foam x glue = a collection of the most amazing incredible, outrageous, awe-inspiring sock puppets you've ever seen. Sock Puppet Madness includes 35 of the most fun, outlandish, off-the-wall and enchanting characters on the planet, and by following the simple step-by-step instructions, you'll be able to put together your own puppet in no time...read more

Product Description: Puppets allow children to identify emotionally with stories and characters. They’re also an excellent tool for learning and playing at a young age. This book provides instructions for making four types of puppets.

Product Description: Do you love dolls? Would you like to make a profit from homemade dolls? Would you like to sell your doll crafts skills? If yes, this doll guide for Etsy profit from home and beyond is going to be for you! According to an article from April 2011 in inc...read more

Product Description: Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis...read more

Product Description: Everyone has a sock or two without a mate, lost to the abyss of the dryer, but what to do with this lonely laundry left-over? Worry not! The Ultimate Sock Puppet Book will help you craft whimsical, quirky creatures that you can create with just some inexpensive materials and your imagination...read more

Product Description: Czechoslovakia’s unique culture of puppet theater reached a glorious apex between about 1900 and 1950, and its visual style was integral to the development of modernist and contemporary theater and animation. The Puppet and the Modern looks at this incredibly fertile phase in puppetry in Bohemia and Moravia and traces the development of stage design and stage technologies, also focusing on the connection of artists from disciplines and styles--designers, carvers, painters and scenographers--to the development of avant-garde and modernist currents in twentieth-century art...read more