{"id":182,"date":"2012-01-22T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2012-01-22T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T19:39:42","slug":"noble-dolls-by-vita-soyka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Noble Dolls by Vita Soyka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archive for June, 2011<\/h2>\n
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Thursday, June 30th, 2011<\/small> <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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I wrote about Japanese Ichimastu dolls in my last blog.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This time I would like to introduce another kind of wonderful doll created by my friend Vita Soyka who is an extremely talented doll artist from Ukraine.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Her dolls are inspired by early European wooden dolls from 17th ~18th centuries, but they are all her original designs, not reproductions.<\/span><\/p>\n

She hand carves lime – wood to make the base of a wooden doll then coats the wood with a chalk priming mixture. She finishes the facial painting with an old method of egg tempera and sets glass eyes to give life to the doll.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0Vita hand sews all garments and dresses for the dolls by using a combination of modern and antique materials. <\/span><\/div>\n
Oftentimes antique fabrics are too fragile to handle and choices are very limited. But by combining both new and old materials Vita has the flexibility to create a wide variety of dresses.<\/span><\/div>\n
She carefully chooses fabrics made from natural materials in order to preserve the integrity of a vintage look to her dolls.<\/span><\/div>\n
To make that vintage look even more authentic, she uses antique glass eyes,and the wigs are made from antique human hair .<\/span><\/div>\n
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I was just blown away when I first saw her dolls because of their artistry.<\/span><\/div>\n
Compared to using molds to make porcelain dolls, hand carving each doll is extremely time consuming and requires a high level of artistic skill. I am already taking my hat off at that point.<\/span><\/div>\n
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My dolls are my own interpretation of antique dolls but still \u201d reproductions\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n
Vita\u2019s dolls are all originals made from scratch. I truly envy her talent and thank her for giving me an opportunity to learn something new.<\/span><\/div>\n
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You can read more about Vita\u2019s dolls from these links.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/happydolls.livejournal.com\/82641.html#cutid1<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/span><\/span>Vita hand carved this beautiful body. Look at detail of these feet! Wow !<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Archive for June, 2011 \u00a0 Thursday, June 30th, 2011 \u00a0 I wrote about Japanese Ichimastu dolls in my last blog. This time I would like to introduce another kind of wonderful doll created by my friend Vita Soyka who is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bebesbysayuri.com\/dollblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}