Anzhelika Rudnytska, Ukrainian singer, TV star and craftswoman, taught children of celebrities how to make a traditional lyalka-motanka doll on Nov. 17.
For hundreds of years, Ukrainian women have been giving these faceless dolls made of cloth to their kids as a toy and an amulet.
The moppets were believed to be the medium between living people and those who had already died or who hadn’t been born yet.
That’s why the dolls remained faceless because, according to superstition, as soon as it started to look like someone, it could do harm a person.
The lesson, provided by Rudnytska, took place at the Master-Klass Cultural Centre. Children of singers Tonya Matviyenko and Viktor Pavlyk, football player Andriy Husin and his wife Hrystyna and other children of the stars were invited.
Kyrylo Hapchuk, son of Oleksandr Hapchuk, Ukrainian designer.
Singer Anzhelika Rudnytska often gives crafts classes.
Making of cloth dolls interested parents as well as their kids.
Ukrainian singer Tonya Matviyenko (left), Iryna Danylevska’s grandson Kyrylo (center) and Ivan Husin, Andeiy Husin’s son (right).
(Photos by Anya Korbut)
