| The height of the main doll is approximately 13.5 cm (5.4’),
made from Linden tree, paints and varnish finish. This is a very
beautiful set of Russian dolls, a true piece of art! This is a set
to order, please contact us with the Catalogue number for delivery
times.
This is a very beautiful set of Russian dolls, a true piece of
art! The faces are very beautiful and detailed. The girls are wearing
a traditional Russian women’s headwear “kokoshnik”, and have traditional
Russian hair braid which has always been considered as an essential
element of Russian femininity and womanhood. In the center part
of each doll there is a miniature paining of young people walking
in the forests, singing and spending time together in nature. As
this is a set to order, please contact us with the Catalogue number
for delivery times.
The set is made from the Linden tree. The trees are cut in the
springtime when they are full of sap, then stripped and kept in
the open air for two years. Each doll’s shape or ‘blank’ is created
on a lathe with the smallest figurine, which will not be taken apart,
made first. Before the doll is painted it is coated with a starchy
glue to make the surface perfectly smooth, which also prevents the
paint from smudging. They are then hand painted, by a team or individually,
by highly skilled artisans, lacquered and then set to dry in special
drying rooms.
As all our Russian dolls are hand painted by artists there may be variations
and differences between those pictured on our website and the ones
you will receive. Every doll is unique as artists tend to add something
different to each and every doll set they paint. That’s why Russian
dolls are somehow a reflection of a mood of the artist painting
it in that particular moment. Russian dolls, as in life itself, may
have their own features, characters, colours and moods and can be
truly unique to you. All our Russian dolls are hollow inside (apart
from the last, smallest doll of each set), they all open in half
and fit inside each other.
Please note that there may be some bright spots on the pictures of some Russian dolls on our website, resulting from photo camera flash and
lights. The actual Russian dolls that you will receive will not
have any of those spots.
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