The doll is able to teach a child to understandlife tasks of men and women. With dolls, little girls have been playing since time immemorial. It is safe to assume that the doll is as old as human civilization.
At first they were woven from grass and hay. With the advent of women, yarn and harsh threads began to make dolls from these materials.
Shrine ritual dolls
Кукла считалась оберегом в славянской и во многих other cultures. She was perceived as an assistant in everyday life and in life situations. It was used for pagan and various religious rites. Over time, the dolls began to replace people in the rites of sacrifice.
Coast and ritual dolls were and remainfaceless. That is, they in no case draw a face. According to legend, the amulet doll is associated with its mistress and personifies it. Therefore, when a girl or woman wove a doll of threads with her own hands, she internally tuned herself to the connection with such a talisman. From time to time, the girls got him to talk, talk about their problems, share their dreams and desires. It was believed that in order for the doll to start “working”, it was necessary to bestow a gift on it after the conversation. In their role could be: beads from dry berries, beautiful ribbons, lace. For the most part, something that will delight the doll and decorate its appearance.
A doll made of yarn with her own hands was made by any girl who lived some two centuries ago.
Well forgotten old is back
Now humanity, "playing enoughindependence, is increasingly returning to the traditions of their ancestors. Ancient holidays and canons are remembered. Everything ancient and natural has become fashionable. And to some extent this is good. A person must remember his roots, pass on the traditions of his ancestors to children, take care of ancient culture.
Handmade dolls amulets of threadincreasingly began to appear in the hidden drawer cabinets. And the girl, having made this strong amulet, tells the doll about her dreams, gives her gifts, as well as her great-great-grandmother once did. And oddly enough, such a doll helps, like many centuries ago. Perhaps it is magic or the power of thought, which is now so much said. But one thing is clear - the doll of threads is always ready to support and come to the rescue.
We offer you to create dolls made of yarn with your own hands: a master class
Come and we will make your personal amulet! For a greater likelihood of making our dreams come true, and just to create an interesting piece of art by ourselves.
For the doll will need:
- Cardboard tight.
- Threads (floss, iris or knitting threads).
- Large sharp scissors.
Handmade dummy: step by step instructions
- Wind the thread on a piece of cardboard.For better fixation of the beginning of the thread, tie it "in the ring" We shake the amount of yarn on the base, which will make our doll not thin, but not thick. Usually it depends on the thickness of the thread. If they are thin, make more skeins, about a hundred. If you have thick threads, fifty hanks will be enough. The height of the cardboard block must be the same as the height of the doll.
- On the final turn, secure the thread by wrappingaround the previous turn. This will help not to crumble the whole structure at the very beginning of the case. Verify a self-made doll of threads and step-by-step photo instructions.
- Cut a piece of thread about ten orfifteen centimeters, pass it between the yarn and the cardboard. Tie this separate thread onto the knot, make it tighter. In the process of stitching all the threads will gather and form the "crown" of the doll's head. Tie this thread. You can leave in the form of a bow, and you can hide.
- Now pull off a ring of wound threads from the cardboard, intercept and tighten one near the doll's head, where the neck will be.
- In order to make the pupa hands, pull out on the sides of the same number of loops. Eight or ten loops will be enough.
- Remaining threads drag around the waist of a doll with a thread of the same color.
- Отрежьте от мотка с пряжей еще две ниточки.Tie the hands of the doll with them, where the person has wrists. The loops on the ends of doll hands can now be trimmed with scissors, giving the desired look. There is another option for making hands - make them pigtails. Braid pigtails and, securing their edges with a thread, cut off the extra tips.
- Now, cutting the loops at the bottom of the doll body,we made a doll skirt. Cut the uneven ends of the threads with scissors, then the hem of the skirt will look neater. If you are supposed to have made a male doll, then disassemble the threads, starting from the waist, into two parts, rewind the resulting "legs" from the bottom as you did your hands. Feet can be made and applying another option - plaiting them in braids.
Now you know how to make a doll out of your own.
Hairstyle for dolls
A doll made of thread is very "cozy."She wants to hug, hold in her hands. Children can take this toy with them to bed for the night. It is very important that the hairstyle of the doll is beautiful and durable. Now we learn to do her hair.
In order to make hair from the threads for a doll with your own hands, we need:
- Hair thread - the same color as the doll hair style.
- Scissors, cardboard - corresponding to the double the estimated length of curls and braids.
We start to make hair from threads
- We wind the yarn on a long cardboard pattern.
- On both sides we cut the winding, you should get just long pieces of thread.
- We put a strip of paper under the hair.Then stitch in the middle strands across. Do it better on a sewing machine. For reliability, retreating five millimeters, stitching again. Carefully remove the remaining (unstitched) sheets of paper.
- Apply to the seams transparent glue.
- We attach the hair to the doll's head. We press for better gluing.
If the doll is with two braids, then we trim the resulting hair with scissors at the bottom and weave our two braids to our beauty.
If you want a different hairstyle for your doll, continue our master class. To decorate any figurine with lovely curls, crochet a mesh hat around the circumference of its head.
Step-by-Step Actions
The cap is important to knit from yarn, which will be the hair of your doll:
- Armed with a crochet hook, on the edge of the capPass the gum, which will hold her on the head of the doll and will not disgracefully hairstyle. Fasten the ends of the gum in any convenient way for you.
- Although, if you are not going to change your imagedolls with brunettes on red and vice versa, such a cap can be glued or (if the doll made by itself is made of threads and yarn) to connect with the head with a crochet hook.
- Multiply our estimated hairstyle length bytwo. Next, cut the threads of this size. To make the hair more natural and beautiful, we dissolve each thread on long fibers. This is a very painstaking and time-consuming procedure, so if you do not want to mess around with your hair for a long time, you can put whole threads of yarn into the cap.
- We take our loose curl from the thread in the middle of the segment, fix it with a loop on the edge of the mesh cap.
- The first row of the cap goes through the entire radius, securing the thread in each loop.
- The following rows of strands can be fixed through time. Moving towards the crown, again make the rows denser. Then the doll hairstyle will be more magnificent and without bald spots.
Способ крепления волос на шапочке подойдет не only a hand-made doll made of thread. With this hairstyle, you can refine and decorate your favorite old toy, which eventually got all the curls. Also, this method is used for hairstyles of papier-mâché dolls.
Reckless hair from grass yarn
For the unknowing masters, you first need to clarifyWhat is this "weed"? It is a type of yarn with fringe sticking out in different directions. With such an interesting material you can make a perky hair of a little doll. It is possible, as in the version with a cap, to insert the weeds from the weed into the loops. But there is a way even faster and easier. Tie this hat of "grass", in the process of turning the thread with the fringed side up, and put the resulting hairstyle on the head of the pupsik.
