Doll making

This Kyiv master has been into the doll-making starting from the end of 2008. For this period she’s mastered the craft. At the fair held in Pyrohiv Kateryna Yushchenko, the first lady of Ukraine, liked Nelly’s handicrafts so much that she bought four of her dolls – either for her daughters or as presents...

A young Kyiv master of motanka-dolls has mastered this craft by herself. For dolls she takes fabric woven on a loom; flax, rushnyks, beads, lace, table-cloths, bands and threads; for compositions she uses cereal ears, poppy seed, peas, buckwheat, millet...

Alla is a well-known Ukrainian master of decorative wood carving and motanka-dolls manufacture. She is from Poltava. Since 2009 Alla has been the head of Poltava regional branch of National Union of Folk Craft Masters...

Olha is a painter and a doll-maker from Dnipropetrovsk region. She started her creative work way back from painting clay toys of some master. Later Olha became so attracted to the folk creations that she began to make motanka-dolls, to embroider rushnyks and tea-cloths, and to make necklaces herself...

The range of the master’s creative interests covers tapestry, fancy decoration of fabrics and doll-making. Tapestry was the first and the greatest passion of Oksana Petrashchuk. Today she can be said to have developed her own original way in tapestry weaving.

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 Grushevsky in their times.

This Kyiv artist creates wonderful knot dolls. Not of a simple kind but in a Middle Dnipro (Naddripryanshchina) regional style.

Soft wolves, foxes, bears, frogs, gods, chicken and roosters; an old man, woman and their granddaughter dressed in traditional folk costumes – this is an incomplete list of the main protagonists of Ukrainian folk tales created by the talented artist in the dry felting technique...

An artist from Kirovohrad is a master of tapestry-making. Beside gobelins of high quality she is also famous for bright dolls weaved from threads. These dolls she invented herself in 2000 and received a certificate of authorship for them.

This national artist makes embroideries and toys. She is ready to speak for hours about the family of her dolls in which every one has its own purpose. According to the master, creation of these dolls is hard and very serious work that needs love and understanding of its aim...

Dolls – motankas created by this master can now be found in eight countries of the world. Two of them are in Africa: in Ethiopia and South African Republic. The artist does not keep a large collection of motankas at home. She makes them either to orders or as presents...

This master is the founder of a new direction of creating motanka dolls. Wire, threads, patches of fabric is all Ms Matsella needs for making her original dolls. With pleasure she teaches girls and even boys this craft at the master classes that she often conducts in different museums and schools of the Ukrainian capital...