Index Start page

Foreword  

Start page

Starte

photo class: evolution of a teddy bear

Subject

Basics 

Excurses, tables and stories

Making bears    
Material Fur, wool and alpaca
Mohair
Other materials
Material for paws
Bears from Synthetic plush
Bears from Viscose plush
Bears from Cotton plush
Bears from Real fur
Bears from Alpaca
Bears from Llama fabric
Bears from Mohair
Drawing
Nap direction

Cutting
Sewing
Photo class: Drawing - Cutting
Photo class: Sewing
Photo class:
Sewing by hand
Stuffing the head
Closing the head
Stuffing material
weighting pellets
Photo class: Stuffing the head
Mounting
Placement for joints
Stuffing and Closing the seams
Joints 
Swivel heads
Swinging joints
No-no- teddies 
Bendable armatures
teddy with spine

Voices
Photo class: Mounting the head
Photo class: Mounting arms and legs
Teddy's face Ears
Attaching the ears
Size and placement of ears
Photo class: Attaching the ears
Intended non symmetrical
Teddy face for trying
Shaving Professional shavings
Photo class: Brushing and shaving
Eyes
Size and placement of eyes

Inserting glass eyes
Inserting safety eyes
Photo class: inserting eyes
Coloured eyes
Size and setting of eyes
Eye design
Eye lids
Pop eyes
Nose
Nose shapes
Stitching the nose
Photo class: Stitching the nose
Noses of artist bears
Coloured noses
Sculptural noses
Waxed noses 
Leather noses
Felt noses

Plastic noses and sculptured noses
Mouth Facial expression
Boy or girl?
Photo class: Stitching the mouth
Finishing touches
Brushing
Dressing
The finished teddybear
Paw design
Self-made labels
Accessories and dressing
Trousers for August
A  vest for Karl
Grobi's collar
Common problems
First and latest teddybears
Variations
One pattern - different bears
A contest
The Jubilee - experiment
Dyeing Dyeing with tea
Natural colours
Synthetic colours
Airbrush
Colour accents
Colourful bears
Red rice
Hot dog
List of natural dyes
Dyeing recipes
Photo class: dyeing with buttercups
Photo class: dyeing with madder
Rainbow teddies
Enlarging
and
downsizing
Large bears
Small bears and miniatures
Material for minis
Making minis
Finishing a miniature
Large teddies and bears
Jointing minis
Dollhouse bears
Mini bears
Miniatures
Miniature animals
Photo class: making miniatures
Needle felted bears
Photo class: needle felting
Inserted faces
Designing inserted faces
Simple inserted snout
Prolonged  inserted snout
Inserted snout with eyes included
Inserted broader snout
Inserted face
Open mouth Slit method for open mouths
Designing open mouths
Making open mouths
Special features
Teddies with open mouths 
Design
First tries Proportions Kombi-pattern
Kombi-teddies
Kombi bear challenge
Classical Teddies
Cuddly teddies 
Character bears
Bears as art
Bad proportions
Pattern changes A teddy child 
Stan and Ollie
Altering the head
Very important Bears
Teddies in Fairy tales
Literature Bears
Parodies
Song bear contest
Basic principles
Head design
Alternative head designs
Traditional head design
variations in head design
Soft sculpting - darts 
Needle sculpting 
Sculptured faces
Body design
Trunk
Arms
Legs 
Footpads
Lying bears
Movement in design
Double jointed arms
Double neck joint
Head discs
Bears and other animals

Design for realistic bears
Realistic proportions
Mobility
Wire spines
Unjointed bears






 

Realistic bears
Bears of the world
Polars
Natural positions
Paws
Claws
 
  Other animals
Designing jointed animals
Designing unjointed animals
Making unjointed animals

 

Teddy-animals
Realistic animals - jointed
Realistic animals - unjointed
Making glove animals
extra pieces for unjointed animals
needle sculpting for animals
realistic animal eyes
Dogs
Dog Design
Portrait dogs
Cats
A badger -  for example
Fantasy animals
Your very own design Design rules
A bear of your own
Designing from scratch
Relatives
Teddybear contests
Photographing teddies
Photographing teddybears Equipment
Lighting
Background 
Creating backgrounds
Background colours
Photographing outside Sunlight 
Backgrounds outside
Teddies & flowers
Teddies and snow
Teddybear photographs
Single teddies
Portraits 
Photographing two teddies
Teddybear groups 
Photographing minis
Comparing sizes on photographs
Photographing realistic bears  
Bear stands
Requisites
Teddies at work
Teddy life - now and then
Comparing sizes for miniatures
Photographs for publishing Contests 
Advertises
Websites
Teddybear contests
Problems with photographs for contests
Homepage
Picture frames
Restoring bears
Teddybear Ambulance
Cleaning teddybears Teddy care
Common repairs
Paws and soles
Inner mouths
Reconstruction of limbs
Mounting of lost limbs
New eyes
New ears
Arthur- reporting a repair
Lost limbs
A doll affair
Ragged bears Reconstructing a snout
Inserting patches
Repairing repairs
Teddy crime
Fur transplant
Worn bears Underlining 
Smelling teddybears
Replacing pieces

Problem cases
The mummy
A teddy without snout - report
A teddy in a Teddy
A hopeless case

ABC-order

Addresses of bearmakers involved in this CD
Literature
Online bear classes

Teddybear magazines
Addresses of teddybear-mailing-lists
Suppliers for teddybear material