The most beautiful handmade textile dolls. Life-size textile doll pattern
Thanks to the ever-increasing interest in handicrafts, you can set up a very creative and interesting tailoring business at home. collectible dolls from textiles. The attractiveness lies in a fairly small investment, plus, a stable demand for this product!
Works of art are not only paintings by famous artists and figurines of great sculptors. Today, the so-called handmade and, in particular, dolls are highly valued. self made. They are considered collectible at the proper level of performance and can be very, very expensive!
We invite you to get acquainted with this opportunity to earn money at home, namely, the creation of collectible textile dolls with your own hands.
The relevance of this type of business
Since ancient times, dolls have accompanied man. The most interesting thing is that they were not always made for children. They served as a powerful tool in both rituals and magic, and then became just an excellent interior decoration.
The ancient Slavs believed that the soul lives in the doll, these items, quite primitive, served as amulets. Today, handmade dolls sewn from the most ordinary textiles have gained particular popularity in the hearts of lovers of beauty. If you have minimal sewing skills, then you can also try your hand at this endeavor!
To roughly estimate the demand for this type of needlework, to get an idea of the target audience and potential buyers, we suggest using the Yandex.Wordstat service:
Figure 3 search result for the keyword "handmade dolls"
Thus, it can be seen that, with due interest, it is quite possible to achieve good results, the main thing is to approach the high-quality performance of work with all seriousness. It may not work out the first time, but it’s worth trying unequivocally to get such beauty:
Target audience research
This moment is very important when it comes to starting a business, even if it is a home business! In our case, based on monitoring in Yandex.Wordstat, we can see that the circle of potential customers is not limited to lovers of exclusively handmade collectible textile dolls, since a doll is a doll, and many mothers and fathers, grandparents they will want to buy one for their child, given that it is usually sewn from environmentally friendly materials.
It is also a wonderful gift for young girls. If you add good PR here, then in the end there is a chance to make such, at first glance, a small business large enough!
Necessary materials
Materials should not be purchased to start in in large numbers. For objectivity, we will evaluate only the most necessary - that is, to create a puppet body, hair and drawing a face. Each master creates his own unique clothes, respectively, and the costs for it will be different, it is almost impossible to calculate this!
In a convenient table, we have collected for you the main materials that will be useful for creating a handmade doll:
You can also use for work and paint (oil, acrylic), even cosmetics (shadows and blush). Usually dolls are sewn by hand without using sewing machine, then the product becomes even more valuable in the eyes of true lovers. In order not to make meaningless calculations, the threads were not taken into account, but their cost is almost negligible, so we see that starting a business does not require large investments.
Benefit calculation
So, for sewing 1 doll, 0.25 meters of coarse calico is enough for us, well, and by default it will be necessary to buy a set of pencils and at least one bundle of wool to create a “hairstyle” for the doll.
In total, 37.5 rubles for the fabric, as well as 285 rubles for tools, of which pencils will serve faithfully for more than one year - that is, less than 300 rubles will be required to start, and in fact - and that - about 200. Suma is just funny.
On average, for 1 doll they ask about 1500 rubles, depending on the level of its manufacture. Thus, the net profit is 750%! Very good. A wonderful incentive to develop your skills.
doll pattern
As for the pattern, it is very simple and public, you can use this one, which we will offer on the pages of the site:
We are sure that you will get a masterpiece the first time, because so many needlewomen have already made sewing dolls their main type of stable income, why can't you do it too?
Each master has his own techniques, patterns and his own peculiarities of sewing an interior doll. IN this master class we will try to describe in great detail how this is usually done. The material is suitable even for beginners with no experience. So let's get started.
MK interior doll from A to Z
What we need:
Sewing machine.
Knitwear for the body, interlining, cotton, jersey for clothing.
Shoes for a doll, a hat for a doll, hair tresses.
Threads are white and beige, needles.
Filler - synthetic winterizer and synthetic winterizer. You can only sintepon, if you do not find sintepuh.
Large (long) needle for sewing on arms and legs.
Glue is transparent.
Invisible needles or safety pins.
Scissors.
So, the first and most important thing is the pattern. Print on A4 and cut out.
For sewing the torso, you will need knitwear. You can purchase special doll knitwear, which almost does not stretch. It is most often found under the name "White Angel". You can get plain knitwear from a fabric store. In order for it not to stretch too much, glue it with interlining. We glue the fabric from the inside, except for the place where the head will be. We fold and cut off facing each other, outline the pattern, sew. Details are not completely stitched together. There are places for eversion and a place where the ball for the head is inserted.
We cut out the body parts with zigzag scissors. If you don’t have them, then we cut them out with ordinary ones and be sure to make small notches at the folds, for example, on the neck. We just take this cut edge and carefully, not reaching the seam of a couple of millimeters, we cut it.
After we have flashed all the details, we need to modify the legs. We take the leg, fold it around the foot, seam to seam and draw a rounded line.
We sew along this line. Cut out. Here's what we should get.
We turn out the details with a wooden stick.
Let's get to the head. We will need foam ball 8 cm in diameter. We cut out a circle from the padding polyester, such that it completely covers the ball, if it is wrapped.
We wrap the ball and put it in the head through the space that is not sewn on top.
If you do not want to make a nose for your doll, then you can skip the next step. For the spout, we need a safety pin with a bead at the end, a piece of padding polyester, thread and glue. So, let's take a pin. Apply glue to the tip of the plastic bead. Wrap with a strip of synthetic winterizer. Then we fold this roll on a bead in half. We tie a thread around the base of this ball.
Necessary strip of synthetic winterizer.
A roll wrapped around an invisibility.
We folded this roll in half and wrapped it at the base with a thread.
We outline on the face with an invisibility where we will have a nose.
Gently move the fabric aside and at the place where the needle enters the ball, insert our nose, and remove the invisibility.
Sew up the top of the head.
Now the most responsible and difficult moment is the neck. For the neck you will need a wooden stick. Cut off Chinese chopsticks and sharpen the end. You can use wooden skewers, but they are more brittle. You will also need a strip of synthetic winterizer and glue.
We cut a strip of synthetic winterizer in a width equal to the length of the stick before sharpening, and the length is such that when rolled up, the neck coverage is approximately. Lubricate the stick with glue and, starting from the end, roll up the padding polyester with a roll around the stick - like a carpet.
Carefully insert this roller into the body through the lower unsewn hole and prick the ball in the head on the tip of the stick. For a beginner, it can be difficult to do right away beautiful neck. With experience it gets better and better.
We stuff the torso with sintepuh. Gently, in small pieces. We help ourselves with a wooden stick. If you do not have synthetic down, then you can use a synthetic winterizer, tearing and fluffing it into small pieces. We stuff tightly.
Stuff the neck first with a stick. We try to align everything so that there are no bumps.
After the neck turned out to be even and neat, you can already stuff the body without a stick, with your hands. Very important point! The stuffing should be very dense, tight. This is necessary in order for our doll to stand later. This applies to the torso, and arms, and legs. Don't rush, use small pieces. Large pieces give the so-called cellulite - not a smooth surface of the doll.
We sew the bottom.
We fill the arms and legs in the same way. There is no way to do without a wand. Tip: put your feet in boots first, and then stuff them. You can do this again with a stick. We put it in the leg and put it in the boot. And then we stuff. This will help the foot not deform during stuffing and take the shape of the shoe. Sew up the openings of the arms and legs.
Let's get to the clothes. Cut out pantaloons. We take fabric. Lay facing each other. We draw our pattern on the fabric. Sew top and bottom. And then sew the top side seams.
We unfold and sew the bottom seams so that we get panties.
We twist and put on the legs through the top.
Insert the body between the legs. We fix with safety pins, and better, if any, with long needles. And we sew by button fastening the legs to the body.
That is, you insert the needle into one leg and stitch it through the torso to the other leg. At the same time, sew on each side through the buttons.
We put on pants. We collect them from behind and sew them to the calf. If they turned out to be too wide on the leg, then they can be picked up on a thread and sewn to the legs.
We sew a dress. It will consist separately of the top, skirt and sleeves. We sew the upper part. To do this, we need to measure the girth of the torso in the waist area and the height of this upper part.
The girth turned out to be 21 cm, and the height is 7.5 cm. For the allowance, add 0.5 cm in width and 2 cm in height.
So, we need to cut out a rectangle 21.5x9.5 cm. And hem it on a typewriter on both sides in width.
Then we make grooves on both sides. To do this, we apply our cut to the body, wrap it around and outline for ourselves the fold of the fabric. You can first draw a line and sweep it by hand. Sew one side. We do not sew to the end, since along the bottom we have the length that we need. And it doesn't need to be reduced.
We apply again to the body and in the same way outline the excess on the second side, which must be removed into the tuck. We are sewing. We apply to the body, fasten with pins and carefully sew the two halves at the back. The top part looks like this:
We sew a skirt. Everything is simple here. From the waist, measure the length of the skirt you need. Please note that if the skirt is fluffy, then it will look shorter. We cut out a rectangle equal in width to your skirt length + 2 cm for allowances, and as long as you want. The more, the more magnificent. For this doll, I made a length of 45 cm. If one piece of fabric is missing, then two can be sewn. So, cut out, hemmed the edges, and then sewed it into one circle. Gathered with a thread along the length and tightened on the belt. Then they sewed it straight to the calf.
This is a petticoat. Skirt top, pleats. The technology is the same. Sewn on by hand.
Down you can put on a tulle skirt for pomp. On the belt in order to hide the seam, you can glue or sew on braid or lace.
Knitted jacket, but you can use both cotton and jeans. In this example, jersey and cotton as lining fabric. We cut the fabric facing each other. We draw a pattern. We do not stretch to the end. We turn it through the hole and sew it by hand.
We attach our jacket to the doll and fix it with pins. Sew it in the center. Decorate with a button or something else. You can not sew, then it will not be buttoned on the doll.
On a small rectangular piece of knitwear, we sew the bottom. We chip off the face and draw the sleeves. We attach the handles to the fabric and outline where the sleeve should go.
Sew, twist and put on hands.
We sew the arms in the same way as the legs, using a button mount.
The last step is hair. Hair can be made from artificial wefts or from natural sheep curls. You can also use yarn or wool for felting. How to make hair from tresses?
We need wefts, transparent glue, or a needle and thread, safety pins, a comb.
There are two options. The first is to glue the wefts with glue, the second is to sew with threads. For beginners, the second option is easier. It is easier. And here's how to glue the wefts.
Draw a line around the head with a simple pencil. Squeeze out a small layer of glue along this line.
We apply the base of the wefts to this layer and fix it with pins. The pins are only needed for a few seconds for the glue to set. When we glue the second row, then we already pull out the pins from the first.
In the same way, the third row, etc. Until the tress is over.
You can sew the wefts with threads to the head in the same way in a spiral. It's a little longer, but your hands will be clean from glue :) Or buy a wig, it is put on the head and easily sewn along the edge.
Draw eyes acrylic paint and blush cheeks with ordinary blush or pastel.
We put on a hat, decorate it to your taste (a bear, or a handbag, or something else), and voila! The doll is ready :)
Interior textile dolls by Master LyonAlyon -
collectible handmade angels and fairies
Alena - Professional textile designer. Worked and works with various types artistic textiles. More recently, I became interested in a textile doll. Uses only high quality materials.
Angel - Guardian of the House...interior doll
cozy and home An angel made of rag patches and cotton yarn
with soft multi-colored house in loving and safe hands ... with warmth and love in a small felt heart ....... and be happy in your home! about 42 cm, sitting less
Amelie...interior doll in the style of "Provence"
Amelie - an angel of lace, frills and curls, in striped stockings and funny knickers... polka dots, checkerboard
and flowers millefleur, white sewing and retro lace. ..softness and tenderness style "Provence" ... to create Amelie carefully selected more than 10 types natural
fabrics from cotton and viscose and several types of the finest cotton lace premium quality, in the wings of a sky color, a vintage mother-of-pearl button ... sits steadily without support, movable arms-legs, removable skirt and stockings ... height is about 40 cm, sitting smaller
Happiness ... the most snow-white!
snow white Angel of Happiness. WITH new Year! WITH new HAPPINESS!!!...and with nova waiting for a miracle... Doll created from a collection of premium quality openwork materials, with beaded embroidery and beads from nature. mother of pearl, hairstyle from wool yarn
with a bow from natural
silk... about 40 cm
one more Happiness...Snow-white!...interior doll
And again Happiness... Vintage
more for someone Happiness ... now vintage. ..great set lace premium quality beads pearl, ruffles from natures. silks, vintage
ribbons and small tassels ... the angel sits steadily, the clothes are aged, the skirt and knickers are removable.. 31 cm, sitting a little less
Amy...Shabby Chic Angel.
..white-pink
angel in style tenderness... about 36cm,sitting smaller
Columbine
Angelok Kolombinka... a cheerful and curious girl, always charming and cheerful! A dress made of multi-colored patches chiffon With bright flower and many ties, a cap made of linen in a cage with a pompom made of cotton, the shoes are fleece, and the stockings are made of cotton jersey
. ..27 cm with cap
Fairy Waltz..
lightness and airiness, solemnity and musicality...small fairy whirls even from the breeze if it is hung up ...... or it can freeze in a light jump if you place it on a doll stand ... 20cm
Fairy Godmother...interior doll.. .with a tower on the head 44 cm, sitting less
Christina's birthday... interior doll
Once a year name day
at Christina's, and now Once a year, Christina calls all her friends ..... the house of guests is full.Birthday: roses,
books, oranges They give her today ... Hey, Christina .... height 30 cm
Leela (based on)
baby with an angelic character... call Lila... inexplicably loves violets... height 22 cm
Margarita...or "the world in lilac light"
Margarita's outfit is exactly the same color as those that blossomed in the spring sundaisies
on my window...the angel can stand with a support, hang on the wall or decorate your home in free space...does not sit. 29 cm
Love or Fall in love?
Falling in love or Love.. .I love? ...or fell in love? height 18 cm
Karina... A coffee-colored angel with purple wings
Karina ....... a little angel sat down next to her ... it became brighter and more joyful ... height 26 cm
imitation child
How do you like that? I would not want to see this at home, it somehow becomes uncomfortable. There are, of course, good works, but why portray cyanotic newborns? brrrrr in one word. How do you generally feel about this kind of art?
In the new issue of the Searchlight of Eva.Ru, meet the puppet master Marina Ryabushkina, who creates artificial children (Reborn doll). It will be very difficult for you to distinguish them from the real ones. Check it out yourself.
Marina, good afternoon! Your dolls are really very unusual. Impressive people can get scared. What is a Reborn doll? Reborn doll in translation means "born again". Craftsmen take vinyl molds and create realistic dolls very similar to children. Indeed, such dolls are "not for everybody". The reborn doll evokes mixed feelings in people who are not familiar with such creativity: shock, surprise, delight. There is no equal equal criticism, any art has its fans and opponents. I have been creating reborns for almost two years. But she is also passionate about the author's art doll.
Marina, good afternoon! Your dolls are really very unusual. Impressive people can get scared. What is a Reborn doll?
Reborn doll in translation means "Born again". Craftsmen take vinyl molds and use them to create realistic dolls, very similar to children. Indeed, such dolls are “not for everyone”. The reborn doll evokes mixed feelings in people who are not familiar with such creativity: shock, surprise, delight. There is no equal equal criticism, any art has its fans and opponents.
I have been creating reborns for almost two years. But she is also passionate about the author's art doll.
Does the master have secrets? In the work on creating any author's doll, each master has his own technique. So it is in reborning - there is a master's style, there is a palette of colors, there are secrets. Usually, I don’t even show my students all my personal developments. With experience, each puppet master gains his secrets. This is the difference between dolls different masters." src="http://mtdata.ru/u3/photo978D/20578324211-0/original.jpg#20578324211">
Does the master have secrets?
In the work on creating any author's doll, each master has his own technique. So it is in reborning - there is a master's style, there is a palette of colors, secrets.
Usually, I don’t even show my students all my personal developments.
With experience, each puppet master gains his secrets. This is the difference between dolls of different masters.
What difficulties can the master meet in the process of creating a doll? A lot of difficulties! The first is fear and insecurity. Where to start? I am self-taught, I myself, through complex trial and error, went the way to create a reborn. There were tears, bloodied hands from rutting (hair implantation), a lot of workpieces just went into the bin.
What difficulties can the master meet in the process of creating a doll?
A lot of difficulties! The first is fear and insecurity. Where to start?
I am self-taught, I myself, through complex trial and error, went the way to create a reborn. There were tears, bloody hands from rutting (hair implantation), a lot of blanks just went into the trash can.
Your dolls are dressed. How do you design clothes for them? Who sews it? You yourself? I sew the reborn doll myself. If I have in my head finished image, then I often pick up branded children's clothes. And then I am engaged in the finalization of these clothes - design."
Your dolls are dressed. How do you design clothes for them? Who sews it? You yourself?
I sew the reborn doll myself. If I have a ready-made image in my head, then I often choose branded children's clothes. And then I am engaged in the finalization of this clothing - design.
Please tell us about Reborn doll collectors Those who love a baby doll are very different people. There are many young mothers with children, and many already adult women whose children have all grown up. Children also play reborn with pleasure! Until the age of 5, the child cannot yet realize that this is a doll. For example, a client calls me: “Marinochka!!! What a nightmare! My son is jealous of the doll for me! Don't let pass! She thinks I have a second child!” When you hold a doll in your hands, it causes so much love and tenderness, and it is impossible to part. Those who don’t know say: “Only unhealthy people who don’t have and haven’t had children buy reborns ...” On the contrary, I buy children’s dolls precisely because there are a lot of children and I still want to! And all our reborn masters practically have many children." src="http://mtdata.ru/u24/photo8589/20801397060-0/original.jpg#20801397060">
Please tell us about collectors of Reborn dolls
Those who love a baby doll are very different people. There are many young mothers with children, and many already adult women whose children have all grown up. Children also play reborn with pleasure!
Until the age of 5, the child cannot yet realize that this is a doll. For example, a client calls me: “Marinochka!!! What a nightmare! My son is jealous of the doll for me! Don't let pass! She thinks I have a second child!”
When you hold a doll in your hands, it causes so much love and tenderness, and it is impossible to part. Those who don’t know say: “Only unhealthy people who don’t have and haven’t had children buy reborns ...”
On the contrary, I buy children's dolls precisely because there are many children and I still want to! And all our reborn masters practically have many children.
What other hobbies do you have and why did you choose reborn dolls? I used to work on television in the program "Marathon-15", "Up to 16 and older", in the children's edition of Channel One. My main profession is film and television director. In the 1990s, I worked for Radio Rossiya. I also write books. In 1997, the eldest daughter appeared, and I left television. My daughter grew up, I had to work. But I did not return to television, but plunged into the shoe business. And already when the second daughter appeared and grew up a little, I became interested in creativity. Making the movie I want is, unfortunately, a pipe dream in Russia. And I chose books and dolls." src="http://mtdata.ru/u9/photoB8DA/20693688456-0/original.jpg#20693688456">
What other hobbies do you have and why did you choose reborn dolls?
I used to work on television in the program "Marathon-15", "Up to 16 and older", in the children's edition of Channel One. My main profession is film and television director. In the 1990s, I worked for Radio Rossiya.
I also write books.
In 1997, the eldest daughter appeared, and I left television. My daughter grew up, I had to work. But I did not return to television, but plunged into the shoe business. And already when the second daughter appeared and grew up a little, I became interested in creativity.
Making the movie I want is, unfortunately, a pipe dream in Russia.
And I chose books and dolls.
Have you tried making dolls of adults, animals? Yes. I have a lot of author's genre dolls. I sew textile animals and invent images for them myself. I sew clothes, shoes. All author's dolls go to the collections of friends and acquaintances. I would like more time in the day!" src="http://mtdata.ru/u9/photo3156/20362907003-0/original.jpg#20362907003">
Have you tried making dolls of adults, animals?
Yes. I have a lot of author's genre dolls. I sew textile animals and invent images for them myself. I sew clothes, shoes. All author's dolls go to the collections of friends and acquaintances. Wish there was more time in the day!
Tell me, please, do they ask you to make dolls - copies of living children? I haven't made any orders yet, but I'm sculpting from the photos myself. I'm still learning." src="http://mtdata.ru/u3/photo1E0D/20585979852-0/original.jpg#20585979852">
Tell me, please, do they ask you to make dolls - copies of living children?
I haven't made any orders yet, but I'm sculpting from the photos myself. I'm still learning.
How do you come up with images of babies? Any preferences? For some reason, I take on the most complex blanks (molds) that no one buys. I like to make dolls with an expressive look, I have them all with my soul. The image is "born" for months, if this is not an order. Orders are a chore. Yes, I do orders, but I like to create my own doll more.
How do you come up with images of babies? Any preferences?
For some reason, I take on the most complex blanks (molds) that no one buys. I like to make dolls with an expressive look, I have them all with my soul. The image is "born" for months, if this is not an order.
Orders are a chore. Yes, I do orders, but I like to create my own doll more.
Do your children share your passion? My eldest has been playing at the Tabakov Theater for three years now. This is a serious hobby. And the youngest is my assistant. She always follows my work, helps me clean my palette and brushes. She has her favorite reborns that live in her room. daughter and son). She is my main critic!" src="http://mtdata.ru/u3/photoB959/20139834154-0/original.jpg#20139834154">
Do your children share your passion?
My eldest has been playing at the Tabakov Theater for three years now. This is a serious hobby.
And the youngest is my assistant. She always follows my work, helps me clean my palette and brushes. She has her favorite reborns that live in her room. daughter and son). She is my biggest critic!
