Traditional motanka doll becomes popular souvenir

  Anna Ivchenko has been making motanka dolls for the last five years. Her clients buy dolls as gifts for special occasions, like birthdays, weddings or ceremonies.

Shot history about ukrainian Rag knot-dolls

 Of all the variety of toy heritage of Ukraine there is one that stands aside. It is Motanka, a traditional Ukrainian rag doll. It is one of the most ancient of Ukrainian handmade household items that is found in every corner of the country. This is the descendant of a goddess-doll symbolizing Rozhanytsa (the one giving birth) – a patroness of the women’s lot and fertility protector, which have been worshiped since ancient Slavic and Trypillya (archeological culture from the copper epoch named after Trypillya – a village in Kyiv region) times.