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Instructions for Free Miniature Books for Dollhouse Use Plus PSD Templates for making your own!

So, I recently was asked some questions about the Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouse Use and Miniature Books Pages, but the person who wrote me had an email address that kept bouncing back the answers. So I thought I would post answers here in case others had the same question, or she returned to those pages.

She asked if I had instructions, so here are some:

The process takes about an hour per book for me, but can move faster by working on several at once. I usually work with scissors and a purple disappearing color paste glue stick. Print the books on regular cheap thin matte copy paper on one of the better quality print settings.

Use the card stock template to cut out the three little pieces of card stock to make the covers stiffer. Thin card stock (like in cheap Dollar Tree 3×5 cards) is best. It also helps to cut about a millimeter or less off outer corners of the card stock front and back cover to round them very slightly.

Leaving a 1-2mm gap between the cardstock covers and spine for flexibility, cover them with the outer cover pieces by pasting them in to the cover with those small gaps. Then fold over the outer corners and paste, then do the top, bottom and sides.

Join the long strips of pages into a longer single strip, fold and glue and flatten, and stick the spine into the cover.  Then trim and put the end papers on to hide any mess and help hold it all together. 

Finally paste on the cover image(s) and spine text. Let dry overnight.

Book by Nicolas Larmessan on Costumes Of The Trades

I like to work on several books in a row while watching TV. It helps to check the books as they dry, to separate any pages that inadvertently start sticking together from an over abundance of paste. If any book comes out too pasty, I usually can save it with a damp (not wet) q-tip and a bit of “massage” of opening and closing.

If you find you like the format, and have a version of Photoshop that allows lots of layers and want to create some of your own, I have the multilayered PSD templates I created on and use to just drop in pictures & text. You can find lots of copyright expired content online that interests you, and with practice insert and download it into the appropriate layout template in about an hour, so you can make custom books on any topic: 

Google Drive: Photoshop Template for Miniature Books: Basic Portrait Layout Book

Google Drive: Photoshop Template for Miniature Books: Basic Long Portrait Layout Book

Google Drive: Photoshop Template for Miniature Books: Basic Landscape Layout Book

Google Drive: Free Miniature books 1-61 as a single downloadable PDF

That way if you are making a miniature library or whole doll house you can populate it with books that make sense for an imaginary household Grandpa with old military memoirs, Grandma with knitting books, Dad with books on sailboats and the Sartorial Art Journal, Mother with some books on interior design and travel, young uncle with western dime novels and porn, Shockheaded Peter and Oz books for the kids, cookbooks in the kitchen, etc.

Or if you are like me, just pick a topic you like and make it all in miniature!

Book on the 17th Century Court Ballet costumes of Daniel Rabel

Free Miniature Books for Dollhouse Use by Tara Maginnis

Free Miniature book #60 Free Miniature Book #60 Costume Designs for Much Ado About Nothing UAF

 

Free Miniature book #61 Costume Design for the Mystery of Edwin Drood

 

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Free Miniature book #55 Elizabethan & Jacobean Blackwork Volume 1 of 5

 

Free Miniature book #56 Elizabethan & Jacobean Blackwork Volume 2 of 5

 

Free Miniature book #57 Elizabethan & Jacobean Blackwork Volume 3 of 5

 

Free Miniature book #58 Elizabethan & Jacobean Blackwork Volume 4 of 5

 

Free Miniature book #59 Elizabethan & Jacobean Blackwork Volume 5 of 5

 

Books for Dollhouses #2 : Paintings by Herb Simon, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Miniature book #52 Jacobean Dress in Detail Volume 1 of 3

 

Free printable pattern for making a miniature book for dollhouse use
Free Miniature book #53 Jacobean Dress in Detail Volume 2 of 3

 

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Free Miniature book #54 Jacobean Dress in Detail Volume 3 o

 

#51 Costumes for the 1903 Romanov Ball

 

Books for Dollhouses #3: French Fashions of the 1770s, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Books for Dollhouses #4 : Duchess Anna’s Jewel Book, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Books for Dollhouses #5, Theatre Designs by Inigo Jones, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #6a: Costume Designs for Tartuffe, Version 1 by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #8 : Plates from British Ferns by Anna Atkins, mini books by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #8 & #9: British Algae, and British Ferns by Anna Atkins, mini books by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #7: Plates from Walter Crane’s Flowers from Shakespeares’s Garden, book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #6b: Costume Designs for Tartuffe, Version 2 by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #12 : Plates from Art in Daily Life, 1925, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #11 : 18th Century Banyans, mini books by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #9 : Plates from British Algae by Anna Atkins, mini books by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #10: Costume Designs for the Threepenny Opera by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #13 : Costume Designs for The Grand Tarot by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #14 : Costume Designs by Alexandra Exter for Aelita Queen of Mars, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #15 : Costume Designs for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #16 : Theatre Designs by Buontalenti, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #17 : Plates from a c1900 Theatrical Makeup Book (with racist content typical of that era), mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #18: Costume Plates by Percy Anderson, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #19 : Plates from a c1870s British Theatrical Makeup Book (with racist content typical of that era), mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #20 : Plates from the Hofkleiderbuch, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #24 : Plates from” Dress Worn at Court”, 1903, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Books for Dollhouses #23 : Plates from ” The Funk Wig Co”, Theatrical Catalog, c1925, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #25 : Costume Designs by Daniel Rabel, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #26 : Ersatz Chinese San Francisco Phone Book c.1929 mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #27 : Costume Designs by N. Larmessin, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #28 : Theatre Designs by Leon Bakst, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #32 : Plates from “Ancient Greek Women’s Costume”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #31 : Manhole Covers of the World, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #30 : Costume Designs by C. Wilhelm, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #29 : Costume Designs by Louis-Rene Boquet, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #33 : Plates from “The Book of the Saxon Nobility”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #34 : Miniature Costume Design Portfolio by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #35 : Costume Designs for The Skriker by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #36 : Plates by Wenceslaus Hollar, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #40 : The Dragon Book, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #39 : Theatre Designs by Natalia Gontcharova, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #38 : Plates from the “Trachtenbuch”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #37 : Costume Designs for Zombie Prom by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #44 : Plates on 1920s Dressmaking by Ruth Wyeth Spears, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #43 : Plates on the Manufacture of Costume Accessories From the Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #42 : Plates on the Manufacture of Clothing From the Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #41 : Plates by Georges Barbier for an edition of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #45 : Plates on 1920s Millinery by Ruth Wyeth Spears, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #46 : Portraits by Hans Holbein, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #47 : Plates from “Album Amicorum of a German Soldier, 1595”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #48 : Men’s Plates from “The Milanese Tailor’s Handbook”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Books for Dollhouses #22 : Posters and Graphics of Georges de Feure, mini book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #31 : Manhole Covers of the World, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #49 : Women’s Plates from “The Milanese Tailor’s Handbook”, mini-book by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #50 : Costume Designs for Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Tara Maginnis

 

Free Printable Miniature Books for Dollhouses #21 : Costume Designs for Guys and Dolls by Tara Maginnis

 

Books for Dollhouses #1 : Ceramics by Herb Simon, mini book by Tara Maginnis