Motanka dolls are not just toys created for children to play with. These are amulets. They can be found in every culture in the world. Historians claim that the first ones appeared more than five centuries ago. These dolls differ from ordinary ones in that they do not have a face.

Brownie is the key to your peace of mind! Do you have a brownie living with you? If not, then be sure to place him in your home. He will bring you good luck and will be the keeper of the family hearth. A homemade brownie will be a good defense against all misfortunes.

The OOAC technique involves remaking an old doll. From English the abbreviation OOAK is translated as “one of a kind” - “One Of A Kind”. Materials: To create a lady vampire or demoness you will need: An unnecessary doll. Wide and narrow

Girls love to dress up their dolls! But dolls are most often sold without additional outfits. And if there are also dresses attached to it, then such dolls are much more expensive. Therefore, if you have a sewing machine, patience and desire

Dolls made of nylon have been considered an original souvenir for a long time. There are a great variety of them, from the ironic priest doll to the important housewife doll, designed to bring good luck. Similar dolls are different

The other day, while flipping through a magazine with master classes, I came across an article on sewing an interesting doll. It looked almost natural. I had the idea to take on his work, but at the same time modify his image into a puppet one. For sewing like this

The “Nurse” doll was known among the Russian people, one of its names was “Cabbage”, and among the Finno-Ugric people it was called “Vepsian tornka”. Why is it called so funny? This is explained by the historical technology of making the pupa. She definitely needs

Tilde dolls have many different variations. However, the distinctive feature of these dolls is their elegance and coziness, despite some primitiveness of execution. Cute Tilda will not only be a pleasant gift for a child, but will also be

In the earliest times, when there were no telephones and computers, designer dolls and dresses, our great-grandmothers put scraps and old clothes in chests. In the evenings, the grandchildren asked their grandmother to tell a fairy tale. The doll successfully complemented the story -

Waldorf dolls are traditional textile folk dolls, they got their name thanks to parents who use them in raising their children according to Waldorf pedagogy. The dolls themselves are made only from natural materials,

When preparing men for a trip, girls (women) often put a hand-made miniature amulet doll “Plantain Girl” made from pieces of fabric with their loved ones along with their belongings. In the hands of the doll there was a bundle in which several grains of millet were hidden.

Before the New Year, the counters of shops selling Christmas tree decorations, Christmas souvenirs and tinsel are decorated with soulless beauties Snow Maidens in identical brocade dresses and cheerful Chinese Santa Clauses resembling Santa Claus

The motanka, made by loving motherly hands, will certainly please your daughter. Making a rag doll is so simple that even a four to five year old child can do it.

A puppet theater in which fairy-tale characters are made from mittens is a great way to diversify the holiday for kids or give adults the opportunity to feel like children again. Making a mitten doll is very simple. Below are

The “share” is made and given to both married and unmarried girls and women. It has long been believed that this amulet doll helps the female sex to arrange or improve their destiny.An integral advantage of this amulet is that a share can be

My friend collects refrigerator magnets. So I decided to give her a magnet-amulet in the form of a folk Slavic feeding doll. It was possible to make another type of Slavic doll, but I really liked the connection between the words “feed” and

Nowadays, quite a lot of attention is paid to traditional crafts; we are learning again to do what our ancestors knew how to do. And this is good, because this way we can understand how these people lived, what they believed in and what they were afraid of. One of the traditional crafts is