Natalya Svyrydyuk

A master of folk-doll, Poltava native by origin, she decorates the clothes of knot-dolls of her several collections by embroidery and traditional ornaments which were collected by Ukrainian Classics Olena Pchilka and Marko Hrushevsky in their times.

Creative work

Natalya Svyrydyuk directs her efforts at creation of scientifically reliable and at the same time esthetically perfect traditional dolls made in national traditions. She makes some of the dolls using herbs and wheat grain. Also, the master works at creation of dolls dyed by natural dyes in accordance with ancient technologies.