Yulia Yarygina

Yulia is a master of the folk doll from Dnipropetrivsk region. She discovered the folk doll through the monitor screen: she first saw motankas in the Internet. The master decided to learn this craft because both grown-ups and children enjoy the dolls.

Creative work

Modern technologies are involved in the dissemination of national arts: it’s in the Internet that Yulia Yarygina first saw a motanka-doll. She liked the dolls and they touched her soul in some way so that now she is enthusiastically creating them herself.

The master uses natural fabrics for her works. She takes husked corn ears as a basis and for decoration she uses bands, patches of ancient rushnyks and embroidery.