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Miniature optician and eyeglass projects for dollhouses, roomboxes and dioramas

Does your tiny person need eye glasses? Or wear sun glasses? Maybe have goggles or safety glasses for work? Or does your old maid wear spectacles?

Optometrists are eye doctors, while opticians fit optical devices including contact lenses.

Miniature optician and eyeglass projects for dollhouses, roomboxes and dioramas

Links to miniature projects

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photo albums, blog posts, webpagesi

Blogs

Blogs concentrating on opticians or categories/labels about them in blogs

Groups

Discussion groups, forums (or forum categories) and photo groups dedicated to opticians.

Supplies for sale

Supplies needed for making optician projects.

Miniatures for sale

Do you have a section for opticians in your shop? Add a direct link to that item here.

Eyeglasses - Alice Zinn (email addy)

Books

Books about miniature optician projects (also books with chapters about them)

Instructions for miniatures

Miniature printables

Wallpapers

Wallpapers that go well with optician projects

Other Printies

Book/magazine covers related to opticians

Eye Charts - Bing image search

Videos

YouTube videos about miniature projects related to this subject

Research/ Inspiration

FromWikipedia:

Glasses, also known as eyeglasses (formal), spectacles or simply specs (informal), are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes. They are normally used for vision correction or eye protection. Safety glasses are a kind of eye protection against flying debris or against visible and near visible light or radiation. Sunglasses allow better vision in bright daylight, and may protect against damage from high levels of ultraviolet light. Other types of glasses may be used for viewing visual information (such as stereoscopy) or simply just for aesthetic or fashion purposes.

Historical types of glasses include the pince-nez, monocle, lorgnette, and scissor or scissors-glasses.

Tips/Hints

Make glasses by taking two strands of fine wire (the sort for jewelry or lace bobbins) .Make a couple of twists in the centre and then place a thin dowel next to the twist. Twist again, enclosing the dowel and then do the same the other side. Next keep twisting tightly for an inch or so each end, making anornate wire bend to width of face and just past ears. Cut the wires and bend to slide behind ears. Next dip the circles in tacky glue and it will dry clear or lenses or use clear dip it film. Experiment with shape e.g. square dowel or use round-ended pliers and tweak into desired shape.
Measure the size across the doll's eyes and draw a rectangle on a piece of paper.Fold the paper in half and use a hole punch in either a round or oval shape to punch a hole. Trace an eyeglass shape around it. Cut it out and try it on the doll and make adjustments, cutting away the excess at the bridge until satisfied. Then use the folded half pattern to make the sun glass front out of lightweight card stock, and paint with gloss paint. Measure for the sides, which are made separately, using painted wire for the ear pieces, and glue them to the frame as if they were folded inward. A tiny drop of gloss paint melds the pieces together at the corners.
To place them on a doll, attach the ear pieces first over the doll's ears (or where they would be under her hair), then cut to length and glue the glasses on the front. Cut a piece from some coloured cellophane for the tinted part in the sunglasses.
This process works best getting the eye holes fitted first, then tracing and cutting the eyeglass shape around them.