Poor families in Ukraine did not have money to buy dolls for their children so they, or the children, made their own dolls.
\nThey used bits of cloth or bits of yarn (wool) to make the dolls and then dressed the dolls in clothes made from other bits of cloth.
\nHere you see the steps to make dolls from yarn.
\nFirst we make the boy doll, and make a braid which will connect to the girl doll.
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Next the girls doll is made and she is given a hair braid. Then she is joined to the boy with his long braid.
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The body can also be made with heavy cloth. Two squares of heavy cloth are cut (one 24 cm square, the other 12 cm square).
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The body can be dressed either as a girl or a boy. For the boy, the legs should be pulled slightly sideways and secured by stitching through the cloth.<\/p>\n
The body can also be made with a tube. Traditionally, this type of doll was built on a tube made of birch-bark; we will use a rolled-up tube of paper: approximately 2.5 cm wide and 9.5 cm long, held with tape. It is covered with a square of cloth approximately 24 cm square.
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Rushnyk has two meanings.
\nIt means a “towel” that you dry your hands on.
\nIt also means a “ritual towel”, which has special pictures embroidered on it.
\nThe ritual rushnyk has a lot of power.
\nIt is used to protect a wedding and the home.
\nHere are some rushnyky and the pictures used on them.
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If you CLICK here you can download a Word Document which lets you make a rushnyk.<\/a> Drag the pictures from the page on the right to the one on the left. Or, try this new page:<\/p>\n Making coloured Easter Eggs is very popular. These are called Pysanky and you can colour one of your own – by clicking here <\/p>\n Crafts Motanky Dolls Poor families in Ukraine did not have money to buy dolls for their children so they, or the children, made their own dolls. They used bits of cloth or bits of yarn (wool) to make the dolls and then dressed the dolls in clothes made from other bits of cloth. Here you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainealive.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainealive.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainealive.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainealive.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainealive.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainealive.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainealive.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2179\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainealive.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt looks like this:
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\nYou can make the pictures bigger and turn them around.<\/p>\nMaking a Rushnyk<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Pysanka or Pysanky (more than one)<\/h1>\n
Colouring an Egg<\/a><\/h1>\n
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