Toy making

Masters from Lviv region are working on the revival of traditional Yavoriv toys. Prototypes of their work are folk toys that are preserved in the collections of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, Ethnographic Museum in Lviv, other museums and private collections. Besides that, they are trying to use their own creativity in this ...

Olha is a Cherkasy master of ornamented ceramic toy. From white clay, she makes shapes of animals, birds, marvelous creatures and decorates them by tempera paints. She has developed an original style for which she was inspired by the works of Mariah Pryimachenko.

Volodymyr is a master of wood carving from Cherkasy region. He works in the area of the traditional carving and spoon making and he is a skillful master of wood modeling. The artist is a virtuoso in different techniques of artistic carving; he creates Ukrainian souvenirs. Creative work The carver works mostly in the area of ...

Roman is a master – doll-maker from Kyiv region. He makes children’s toys from pine boards. Among his works, horses prevail: rocking horses, horses on wheels or sticks. His toys are kind, warm and simple for little children’s perception...

A wood carver from Lviv region has devoted himself to the revival of the traditional Yavoriv toy. Together with his two brothers and the son they cut folk toys from aspen and decorate them with the local folk ornaments...

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...

A carver from Kyiv creates powerful bulls and horses from wood. Earlier he used to make furniture and think that no one needed toys. But once he made several works for an exhibition and started to get numerous orders for toys...

A special place in this artist’s creative work belongs to Ukrainian folk musical instruments. Ceramic ocarinas, whistles and khykhychkas – all the instruments that have reached us from great antiquity and used to be widespread in many nations...

The floor in the house of this master is covered by wooden sawdust instead of a carpet. This is the result of the creative work of Ivan Prykhodko who cuts guardian angels out of willow, as well as different symbols of the divine spirit – birds and odd magical animals...

Master of wood carving who is known first of all by his derkaches (derkach is a national noise instrument where the sound is obtained by means of rotation - a kind of a national rotating rattle)...