dolls- these are not just toys that little girls love to play with! Dolls are magical objects, falling in love with them once in a lifetime, you become their slaves for life!

Since ancient times, voodoo shamans have performed their terrible magical acts with dolls, actors made the audience cry and laugh in their theatrical performances, they protected their homes with dolls - amulets in Rus'!

Now various rituals are coming into fashion again - amulets, the main character of which is a doll - a motanka, a herbalist and many others ...

Modern designers have also put their hand in this direction - thanks to their efforts, Dolls have become a necessary accessory in some interiors, a piece of furniture. Consider several options for them, which, with great desire and perseverance, you can do yourself at home.

From ancient times, the mysterious and omnipotent Motanka doll came to us. With the help of amulet dolls, our ancestors protected themselves from evil spirits and called happiness, prosperity, a good harvest, health and longevity to their homes for each family member. A very important role in the creation of this doll was played by the color of the clothes and threads with which this amulet was made. To protect the home, blue and light blue colors were used, and to attract fertility (children, harvest ...) Motanka was performed in red tones.

The main condition for creating a Motanka doll is not to use piercing and cutting objects in its manufacture, such as ... a needle, scissors and not to draw a face on the Doll - the ancients believed that this could attract evil spirits to the dwelling!

Here are some options:

To make a doll, we take HAY. We choose two bundles. We bend one bundle in the middle, twist the upper part and tie it tightly with threads, this is the head of the Doll.
We tie the second bundle, smaller at both ends, with threads (separate the palms), thread through the first bundle of straw in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe torso - hands are obtained.

At the waist line, we again tightly tie it with threads - the amulet is almost ready!
Now she needs to dress up! To do this, they tied the head of the Doll with bright threads or braid crosswise, tied a scarf on top, put on a shirt made of linen and an apron.

To do this, you need to take a small patch and roll it tightly into a tube, then fold the resulting tube several times.

Put the resulting rectangle into a white cloth - this is the head and wrap it with threads below.
Now you need to complete the first elements of the amulet. Take threads of different colors (blue, red, yellow) and, in turn, wind crosses over the entire head with each thread (one next to the other ...), first in one color, then in another and, finally, in the third.

We bend the tube longer in half and wrap the top tightly with woolen thread.

We insert the hands prepared in the same way into the hole formed and wind the thread very tightly along the entire length of the body so that the hands do not go up and down.
The next task is to put the head on the body with the help of shreds. To do this, we wind a thread tightly at the bottom of the head - this is the neck, and with the help of shreds and thread we wind the head with the neck to the body.

It remains to put on the made amulet in a shirt, a wide skirt, tie an apron, decorate with beaded beads. In order to decorate the doll's head, simply tie a scarf to her, another option is to weave braids from linen or woolen threads and tie them around the head.

Following these instructions, you can create a variety of doll amulets and give them to your friends for a wedding, birthday, Christmas and other holidays.

Some of the most beautiful dolls that you can actually make with your own hands are frame dolls. In the manufacture of these "toys" for adults (and not only), both the latest and conventional techniques are used, such as papier-mâché.

Having decided on the manufacture of such a beauty. You must carefully consider her image in your head, down to the smallest detail. Your assistant in this will be a sheet of paper and a pencil! Take and draw various images, dream up and choose the one you like the most.

To work on the frame doll, you will need the following materials:

• Steel wire;
• Pliers;
• Scissors;
• Plasticine;
• Newsprint;
• PVA glue;
• Toilet paper;
• Paste;
• Stacks and board for modeling;
• Batting, synthetic winterizer or cotton wool;
• Acrylic paints;
• Fine sandpaper;
• Nail polishes;
• Satin ribbons;
• Fabric for covering the body (knitwear, coarse calico and other soft fabrics);
• Beautiful shreds of fabric for clothes.

Getting to work on the product, first of all, we will pay attention to the frame of the doll. It is better to take a steel wire, as it is particularly durable and will allow our toy "Madame" to take various poses.

Twist the pieces of wire so that the neck, torso, arms and legs are outlined. Be sure to leave an extra wire on the neck with a length of 8 cm, and 5 cm for each arm (up to the hands);

Mark the location of the knees and elbows on the finished frame;

Now you have to use the papier-mâché technique to turn the plasticine blank into a future doll head. For this purpose, glue the plasticine head with newspaper scraps in several layers (6-8). Each layer should dry well. When the head hardens, carefully sand it with fine sandpaper. When the head becomes smooth and pleasant to the touch, cut it and remove the plasticine that is no longer needed. Paste the head again along the seam with newspapers and let the paper dry;

To make legs up to the knee and arms up to the elbow, use the same papier-mâché technique and sand the dried legs with sandpaper. This technique is used when you want to give hardness and smoothness to exposed parts of the doll. If your puppet beauty will be “dressed” in a long closed dress, then another option for making hands will do.

Take a copper wire 0.7-1.5 mm thick, cut it into pieces that would be enough to make fingers and a palm with a small wire stock. Now you need to sheathe each wire with a thin cloth and with the help of threads, collect everything in your palm. Remember, we left 5 cm of stock on each hand? Now it will be very useful to us - with its help we will fasten the palms to the frame of the future hand. Which option suits you best - decide for yourself;

Now let's get to sculpting! The turn has come to thoroughly deal with the head of our "lady", we need to complete the work and express with the help of a paste and toilet paper the small features of the face - showing her individuality. Having kneaded a certain mass from paste and toilet paper, similar in structure to a tight dough, using stacks, we sculpt the final relief of the face. After the mass has hardened, we again resort to the help of PVA glue and newspaper - we glue new places with newspaper, let it dry and grind again;

The turn finally came to the formation of the body of the pupa. A suitable material for this purpose can be a synthetic winterizer, batting, or even ordinary cotton wool. We wrap the selected material around the wire frame, where necessary - compacting, where necessary expanding the body of the doll. To keep the seal in the position that we gave it, wrap it with tight threads;

The doll has been shaped. The next task is to further fix the shape of the body and smooth its relief with the help of fabric. To do this, take a knitted fabric and sheathe the arms, legs to the knees and the torso of the doll with pieces of it;

The turn has come to start priming the face and legs of the pupa with acrylic paints. When the face is dry, it will be possible to start painting it;

We take the same fabric with which we made the palms of the doll and sheathe the thighs and soft legs with pieces of it. This fabric will act as the "skin". From it, complete the neck, shoulders and arms of our "lady";

Let's make a dress for our beauty. Various shreds of the most beautiful fabrics are suitable for him. Use pieces of fur, beads, various laces and ribbons! Create a unique image for your creation. Dresses may or may not be removable. You will need to make a removable one separately, and then put your beauty in it, but the whole one is simply sewn onto the doll in separate pieces;

Our “lady” is dressed, but her face has not yet been drawn!!! Disorder! The turn has come to finally put the doll's face in order and carefully draw lips and eyes with acrylic paints or tempera. If you wish, you can “apply” decorative makeup to your beauty. To make the paints waterproof - add a little matte varnish to them. This will give your creation resistance to moisture and mechanical damage. Painting your lips and eyes with clear nail polish will add extra shine to those parts of your face. Eyelashes for our fashionista can be sold in the store, just buy and stick them;

Take care of the legs - the same technique as for the face. Acrylic, varnish…;

Every woman is adorned with hair. Our beauty is no exception and needs a chic hairstyle. We can create it from satin ribbons of the desired color. We cut the ribbons of the same length, dissolve each ribbon, do not reach 0.5 cm to the end. We glue the ribbons in strict rows to the head with the remaining edges - the hair is ready. Put them in your hair;

Our lady is dressed, with a haircut… What else does she lack to complete the image? She needs sandals! And on heels! L. Gurchenko said: “... What kind of beauty can do without studs?”, Now we will sculpt the chic sandals of our krale. Pieces of leather, exotic fabrics, laces and polyurethane heels can serve as material for shoes. Show perseverance and imagination, sandals will come out - the highest class.

Such a framed doll will fit into any interior and become its highlight, with all this, you can change its poses every day, rearrange it to new places! It's original, beautiful, unusual! You made it YOURSELF!

A characteristic feature of this particular doll is a soft cloth body, a bright blush on the face and small dot eyes. Tilda appeared in 1999, thanks to the Norwegian designer Tone Finnanger. This toy was so simple and unusual that it was thanks to these qualities that doll lovers fell in love with it.

Tilda is not difficult to make with your own hands. You just need to stock up on all the necessary materials and patience. Now, using the example of the Tilda "Vintage Angel" doll, we will analyze all the stages of creating this simple masterpiece.

So get ready:

Cotton or linen fabric;
Colorful fabric for dress;
Thin and light fabric for the wings of our Vintage Angel;
Ribbons, lace, ribbons - to decorate the doll's clothes;
Sintipon, cotton wool or any other filler for our product;

1. Using paper patterns, we will cut out the details of the pupa from the fabric. For the body - lay and sew the linen fabric with the fabric from which the Angel's dress will be made so that you get a rectangle. Fold the resulting rectangle in half and, overlaying the patterns of body parts with the head, cut them out.

2. Cut out four pieces of linen legs and handles. Remember to leave seam allowances when cutting out;

3. We start stitching the received parts. To do this, fold in pairs all the details with the front side inward. Sew them, but leave the bottom of each part unsewn - through this hole we can turn the blank on the face and fill it with synthetic winterizer filler;

4. When all the details of the body are sewn, turned inside out and stuffed with synthetic winterizer, you can begin to form a silhouette. To do this, carefully sew the arms and legs to Tilda's body;

5. It's the turn to do the doll's head. Let's start with the hair. Wool thread works well for this purpose. Beautifully place the “hair” thread in a circle around the entire head and secure it with a thread and a needle. Insert pins on both sides of the head and wind a woolen thread around them, forming curls. We flash everything again and fix it;

6. Face - distinguishes Tilda from other textile dolls. The eyes are made using a special French knot, but if you are not familiar with this technique, sew on a regular bead - the eyes are ready! Tilda's obligatory sign is also the bright cheeks of this doll, draw them with blush or lipstick !;

7. The textile doll is ready, let's start her clothes! To do this, we again turn our shooting to the pattern of the dress. We cut out the details of the yoke and sleeves, in the right places we pick up the sleeve on a thread and sew it to the yoke. All seams are done on the wrong side of the dress. After that, we proceed to the skirt of the dress - folding the fabric in half. We apply the bottom pattern, cut it out and we get a piece of fabric twice as large as the pattern. That's how it should be! Now we pull together on a thread (pick up) the upper part of the fabric and sew it to the yoke. We trim the bottom of the dress with lace and sew the ties to the yoke - our dress is ready and we can safely dress our “fashionista” in it!;

8. But our "fashionista" is called an Angel, which means that it's time to take care of the wings! For the wings, take a light fabric and cut out four details of the wings. We sew them inside out in pairs, turn them inside out and stuff them with synthetic winterizer. Now carefully quilt the wings with a needle, highlighting the feathers, sew to Tilda's back right through the dress! If necessary, sew on a loop of braid - suddenly your Tilda - Angel wants to "fly" somewhere under the ceiling or on the wall!

Having familiarized yourself with the manufacture of such a variety of dolls, you will surely want your relatives and friends to have such hand-made “masterpieces”!