Create a family of dolls to fill your dollhouse and make it come alive -- all with excellent, realistic proportions and authentic period style. A master doll crafter shows you all the specialized techniques to get professional results, and the traditional 1/12th scale fits most contemporary dollhouses. Know what to look for when you buy a kit, and how to sculpt porcelain dolls using modeling day. Paint the features, make plaster or robber molds, and fashion bound pipecleaner bodies. Dozens of full-size clothes patterns will make your dolls the best dressed in town: choose from authentic Georgian, Regency, or Edwardian costumes, plus much more. Instructions also cover hairstyles, hats, and footwear, with attention to period details. Superb full-color photographs show each doll to full advantage in the appropriate dollhouse setting. "...terrific patterns for period clothing, plus delicious room setting ideas...really teaches you to freeze a moment in time -- in miniature". -- Dollmaking. "...unique tricks to ease sewing such tiny articles....Great" -- Craft Digest.