Doll Maslenitsa with their own hands: master classes with step-by-step photos and videos
What is the Maslenitsa doll? Many will say - it's a scarecrow that is burned at the end of the festive week, seeing off the winter. And here not! A small ritual doll, Shrovetide, made by oneself during the holiday, is a long tradition for preserving peace and harmony in the house. The country of the Soviets offers you a selection of master classes for the manufacture of such dolls.
Shrovetide Maslenitsa Doll
Home Maslenitsa or "Maslenitsa's daughter", like heroften referred to, on a scarecrow is completely different. This little pupa, about 20 cm in height, is decorated with bright fabrics and colored ribbons, braids are braided and arranged in the house in a conspicuous place. The task at it simple - to please домочадцев and to keep the peace in a family. Will live such a guard for exactly one year, until the next holiday. If the family has children, dolls are made several - for each child, and one more for the house.
Materials for crafts are better to take natural -twigs, bast, straw, rags, natural fabrics and woolen or cotton threads. If you are not going to use your creation as a charm, you can use a completely modern sintepon and glue. It is very easy to make a doll, it can be done with children. But if you decided to follow exactly the ancient customs, remember: the owner of the Shrovetide should make the house owner herself or with the help of the children, but without the participation of men. After all, the task of men is to make a large growth scarecrow that will stand on the street for a week and burn out on the last day of the holiday.
The faces of the Home Carnival usually do not exist, and somehowhis portrayal is considered a bad omen - if the face of the doll accidentally turns out to be similar to someone from family members, this person can get sick. But if you do not believe in signs, boldly draw a face with felt-tip pens, or you can embroider it.
During the year, the Shrovetide Maslenitsa must guardpeace in your home. If a family has trouble, quarrel or resentment, you can complain to the doll and tie a bright colored ribbon on it. A year later, the guard is burned with a large scarecrow. It is believed that when all the tied ribbons are burned, all misfortunes will go away with them.
Rag doll Maslenitsa: master class with step-by-step photos
Rag dolls were usually made for Pancake week forchildren. The whole year the child could play with such a doll, and then independently threw it into the fire on the Forgiveness Sunday. It was believed that this will save the baby from all the diseases of the past year.
We suggest you to study the master class of the Novosibirsk craftsman Zoe Pinigina and create a rag doll Maslenitsa with your own hands.
You will need:
1 flap of white cloth for the head 20x20 cm
2 flaps of white cloth for hands 10x12 cm
2 flaps of colored fabric with floral ornament for a skirt 20x20 cm
1 triangular flap of red cloth for a scarf with a long side of 22 cm
A wad of cotton wool, rags or a sintepon for the head
a tangle of red thread, better woolen
Preparation method:
Prepare everything you need for a doll. You do not need to sew the edge of the fabric, just slacken it a bit, pulling out a few strings.
A piece of cotton wool or rags place in the middle of the flap, from which you will make a head.
Form the head of the doll and tighten it with a thread. All the folds of the fabric on the back of the head, so that the face of your Carnival turns smooth and smooth.
Scraps for hands, fold a corner and twist.
Wrap the thread of the hand to the ready-made head so that they are pointing upwards.
Thread and tighten on the knot after every two turns.
Scraps for the skirt, fold twice diagonally and place it as shown in the picture to wrap the Maslenitsa skirt in the sun.
The lower flap of the skirt is bent to the center.
The upper flap of the skirt bend down and around the doll from left to right.
Now the remaining edge of the lower flap once again bend to the center.
And the second edge of the upper flap is also bent down, but behind the back of the doll. Attach the skirt with threads and fasten it well.
Put on the Maslenitsa kerchief, tied it in front of one knot.
Your rag doll is ready.
Making a Maslenitsa doll from a bast, master-class with step-by-step photos
Home Carnival of Lycia - this is no longer a toyfor a child. It is usually larger than a rag doll and necessarily has a wooden base, most often of birch. She was put in the house so that the landlady could tie her ribbon-memoirs on her. We placed such a doll either in a red corner or in the kitchen. Change this amulet in the same way as all the similar ones - exactly in a year.
You will need:
birch stick length 35-40 cm
skein bast (it can be bought in a flower or hardware store, from a bast make a brush for whitewashing trees)
rags or cotton wool for the head
a piece of white cloth
colored rags for clothes
red or white thread
Preparation method:
Tightly wrap the rags in a white flap and thread the doll's head on the stick with threads. The wooden basis of the doll is not to be cleared from the bark.
From the bundle of bast, form the body, for this, gently attach the bast to the neck. All the tails of the fabric from the head should be completely covered.
Make your hands from a bun in a bun, tie it around the edges like a candy. You can insert a small stick for stiffness into this bundle, but this is not necessary.
Place your hands in the middle of the bun in the bun and tighten them tightly, pulling the threads together in a criss-cross pattern.
Dress up the doll as your imagination tells. You can make a scythe from colored ribbons. Necessarily need a magnificent skirt. You can make a doll a shirt from a cut in the middle of the flap. Often also put on an apron. The handkerchief from such a doll is tied behind.
Doll-goat and doll-cow on Pancake week, master classes on video
Very often the Home Carnival is made in the form of a goator cows. The old tradition is easily explained, because it was from these animals depended on the welfare of our ancestors. To learn how to make these dolls, take a look at the master class on video.
Try once to make such dolls, and we are sure you will like it. The Pancake doll, created by yourself during the holiday, will make every your spring meeting unique.
