Previously, the New Year in Russia was celebrated in the spring, March 1. It coincided with the beginning of field work, and peasants who lived in the countryside cheerfully celebrated this event. Young unmarried girls made for the arrival of spring rag dolls and gave their relatives and friends. Such a doll - springy - symbolizes the warmth and blooming of nature due to its bright colors. She is an amulet and gives her owner health, strength, luck and beauty. Special meaning consisted of a long spit - earlier in color this mandatory attribute of girlhood wondered about the weather of the coming summer.
And let's try together to make a doll amulet wagtail with their own hands?
Master-class "Folk doll"
- Prepare several different pieces of cloth to make the body of the doll and her clothes. Also useful are colored thread, lace and bright ribbons. First, take a flap of monophonic tissue and fold it with the edges inward. This will be the torso of a doll of a freckle. Tie a red thread (it is desirable to take thin knitting threads of the "iris" type) a few centimeters from the edge, visually separating the head from the trunk. Now make your penknife. Take a fabric of a different color and texture and fold it in the same way as described in the previous paragraph.
- Tie the edges of the tissue harness, forming the hands. They can be slightly fluffed, making fringe. Then you need to connect the trunk with your hands. Use the same thread for this.
- Clothing dolls can be made according to Old Russian traditions. First, from a rectangular flap of bright fabric, make a lower skirt. Then, if you have more rough material, you can put the doll in a lush skirt. To do this, take a flap and make an accurate seam in its upper part by hand, and then pull it together. The lower part will play the role of a lush skirt, and the upper part will be a bodice.
- If you are fond of embroidery, you can apply it in this hand-made article. Take the already embroidered embroidered canvas with a small size and thread a thin satin ribbon or thread into it. Tie the resulting apron around the belt of the doll. The main emphasis in this hand-crafted article is the hair of a freckle. To make them, floss threads are perfect - they have many fibers and look like lush and shiny hair. In principle, they can be replaced with conventional knitting threads, cut into identical lengths. The advantage of this method is the ability to use different colors, making the doll an unusual bright hairstyle. The head of the doll is actually a loop of fabric: gently thread the threads through it.
- Tie them in a tight knot at the base of the head. Divide the entire bunch of hair into two parts and lift one of them up. The rest of the tie is tied to the neck from the back of the head. This is necessary in order to cover the back of the head of the dolls.
- Lift this strand upward and weave the whole bunch of hair into a beautiful thick braid. By and large, a doll can make any hairstyle, but the traditional is a long and tight braid, which in Russia has always been a girl's beauty and pride. You can weave in a pigtail any ribbons, decorate it with beads or small decorative hairpins. Do not forget about the bangs - a small part of the threads must be separated and trimmed. Here's a cute doll Motanka chubby turned out!
With your own hands, you can do other folk dolls - a doll-wish and a doll-amulet.
