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Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)There is a book in our library system (also found it at Barnes & Noble a dozen years ago when there was a branch open nearby) which has patterns inside for soft-sculptured Steiff® dolls; from that can be seen some of the Steiff® philosophy on flat-pattern-drafting.
The templates for some of the more unusual felt-faced dolls were quite unusual and a real eye-opener.... I especially remember the center-seam 'Gendarme' costumed fellow. All of the concave and convex curves of his nose, mouth, cheeks etc.. of the central part of his small face had to be accommodated in that one seamline.
From there could be juxtaposed the patterns for bears and their design principles. As Steilff® is considered the first designer of artist bears, which went on to become a company of manufactured bears, we look to them to set certain standards. Studying their images, as Brenda suggests, is one of the best methods to see these originals and then compare everyone else's to them to see how the individual's variables have been incorporated to make each artist's work express their own style.
