In Slavic culture, ritual dolls occupy a special honorable place. According to the pagan traditions, they were created for popular mass holidays, such as cover, carnival, Ivan Kupala. The most popular holiday in Spring was considered a wide carnival. It was thus suitable for her celebration. The walking took place everywhere, on a wide leg, with pancakes and songs. Long farewell to winter for a whole week. On the last day of the festivities, forgiven Sunday, according to the tradition, burned the scarecrow to carnival. In addition to the scarecrow, the hostesses were manufactured for a holiday a small home carnival-charm - a symbol of spring and heat. Master class about Doll Maslenitsa is devoted to the creation of such a spring overag doll from various modern materials, in the best traditions of decorative and applied art. It contains a detailed description and scheme, step-by-step photos and video for the manufacture of dolls, as well as examples of the work of folk craftsmen.
The manufacture of dolls was a real sacrament, which was suitable with all seriousness and responsibility. There were certain rules that strictly followed. For example, when creating chattering, it was never used by sting and cutting items, worked only with natural materials and threads, mostly red, which symbolizes life itself. Dolls did faceless to make evil spirits could not fit into them, special conspiracies read before the manufacture. With ritual dolls never played.
The carnival doll was manufactured for a holiday and stored all year, as a pledge of fertility and health, a symbol of wealth. The next year, on a holiday, the doll was burned in a ritual bonorable or allowed along the river, in return prepared a new one. This charm held an honorable place in the house, in a red corner or at the entrance. For the crafts used natural materials: straw, lyco, urine. Today, modern materials are used for the creation of homemade carnival - fabrics, threads, and even paper.
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Spring Obereg
1 way
Prepare everything you need and start creating a modern doll to carnival from the fabric. We will need:
- white, red and colored cotton fabric;
- filler (wool or syntheps);
- Red threads.
- The fabric is necessary to cut out in advance and prepare one square 20 x 20 cm made of white fabric; Two squares 20 x 20 cm made of colored fabric and two red squares, 10 x 10 cm.
- Patterns are ready. We proceed to the manufacture of the head of the doll. We take cotton or syntheps, form a small ball from it, put it in a large square of white fabric. Wind the red thread.
- Cooking hands, for this we need two squares from white cloth. We form the same triangles from the tissue, we denote the hand brushes with a red thread, as demonstrated in the photo.
- Attach your hands to the body, between the folds, with the help of the threads.
- Mastery doll Sarafan. We take colored squares, fold them diagonally into triangles. Then we impose on each other, dress up a doll, fix the mouth of the thread.
- We put on a headdress - a red handkerchief. Symbol of spring, heat and fertility ready.
2 way
Carnival doll with oblique to the belt.
To make such a doll, prepare:
- white, color and red fabric;
- lace, tape tape for decoration;
- Red threads, filler.
- Getting to work. We form your head and torso doll. We fasten with red threads.
- Making hands.
- Attach the limbs to the body with the threads, as shown in the photo.
- Dress up carnival. Cooking sundress, apron, apron.
- Getting a hairstyle. Make your hair out of the threads, we insert your hair, we turn the braid, decorate the ribbons.
Homemade carnival doll with oblique to the belt is ready.
We offer you a third option to manufacture a doll. Patterns and creation scheme are attached.
Patterns for creating dolls:
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Manufacturing scheme step by step:
We offer to explore the finished works of the needlewoman, they will inspire you to create their own masterpieces.
Ideas for creativity
We will make an unusual carnival doll from colored paper.
Make such a doll with your own hands, even the baby. In the process of manufacture, you can pass the child with stories about the traditions and rites of the ancient Slavs, in such a way, interest in the cultural heritage of the ancestors.
The process of creating a doll is presented schematically.
- Cut the circle.
- We process the edges using curly scissors.
- Let's make a snowy napkin-snowflake, for this we take the square, fold, fantasize, cut out.
- We proceed to creating a dress.
- We glue the skirt to the workpiece.
- We make the head pupae in the handkerchief, glit, ready.
Pay attention to what wonderful modern auners are obtained from the threads.
Crocheted Carnival will decorate any interior and become a keeper of the family well-being and health of households.
The scheme for creating a carnival doll from straw - in the best traditions of the ancestors:
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Video for the manufacture of household fabrics of Maslenitsa from different materials to your choice.