Muchawka Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ This doll was inspire by the pattern I derived from my research, product design and Canadian history. Our roots were Muchawka, Ukraine in 1902- bringing the history to the prairies in 1905.
Big Lady 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ The roots of the cultures that have Caucasian influence go back to the days of witchcraft and matriarchs. This pattern was loosely influenced by the Russian side of culture, as many people dissented war and unfair work practices in favor of a better life.
Light Lady Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ I remember growing up with family in Winnipeg where they had deep manufacturing roots and ties to the original department stores. This product reminds of how the world of embroidery and fabrics used to represent the first immigrants to Canada and how much influence they may have had on fashion going down to places like New York City and Manhattan.
Black Heart Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ The luxury behind this design is supposed to represent middleclass 1950-60's woman's style, the decade my father was born. As people with less consumerism, they had style built for the prairies with less waste and superficial needs.
Empress Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ The esoteric value of object such as a talisman are historic because the imbue the material that can represent our people and also culture. Whether or not these objects have special powers depend on the person who made them, and what position in the world order their significance lands.
Boreal Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ Canada has mixed many ethnicities that blend together. People of the dark haired persuasion have a similar bent as many first nations and French are naturalists and long term residents as well.
Snowy Owl 25 Wool, natural dye, embroidery fiber,wood / Beautiful patterns start with strong connections to females and strength, this snowy owl pattern connects us with the type of women who would have had to identify with the prairie wilderness to deal with Canada's obstacles.
Loon 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ The strength behind my grandmother and her ancestors was buried for 40 years. Long ago they were different people today, and their versatility in Canada as dispossessed people make this heritage uniquely northern and rugged..
Friend Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ In modern day, family is a set up created by the way we live to have a society. Bad influences have created entities that reflect the way we show ourselves to ourselves in salesmanship and distance. Back in the day, a person family and geography created strong alliances that relied on old customs to have relationship, leaving less people stranded but living closer together for life.
Tree Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ The tree that we come from and go to after we die has the secrets to our kingdom. Before we forgot, this was secret to happiness and a beautiful life. If we were to be buried under a tree, it would contain the rest of us as well- and everything in the branches we have saved for.
Fair Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ Some Ukrainian patterns have similarities with people in South America due to the migration in the 1890's that would have brought those people there.
Hoodlem Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber,wood/ The hutsul culture is a small segment of people in the Ukrainian mountains. To travel a person's roots back to simple design's that represent a person's tribe is cathartic for people who have may of moved west and been told to adopt other patterns, creating a conflict of interest in people's identity, although freer in nature.
Family Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ This pattern represents the serfdom that many people came from, with the fields underneath after harvest. Many people have the memory of serfdom in their breeding, as to move into different social structures competed to be either a proletariat or consumer depending.
North Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ As the past, looking to a future with more altruistic intentions from our northern neighborhood. As controversial settling was, the dates on the roots of these designs go back thousands of years all over the northern hemisphere, making bloodlines as far back as 10 000 years difficult to decipher.
Original Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ This was the original design I had made to bring the doll culture back to my Canadian family as the Ukrainian conflict made the split between white people as bad as it has ever been, creating the need to separate my family from other people who may not understand the modern age.
Prussia Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ The culture overseas between the small Slavic countries has been re-looked at since the Russian-Ukrainian war as alliances world wide are strengthened when conspiracy strikes. This pattern is designed for cultures in between borders that celebrated rich decoration before the Soviet era.
Grave Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, beads, embroidery fiber, wood/ Suffocation and angst is a key part of many Ukrainian and Slavic descent as the their history of famine and Holocaust make it their cultural and family history. The afterlife is a big part of many people who can believe that death was part of their family story, and that bones from underneath are communicating to ancestors to bring justice to their culture.
Banner Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, embroidery fiber, wood/ I love how the standard tradition behind this pattern, and how classic it is even though it comes from a woodsier Ukrainian. I appreciate the masonic level of some of the free thinkers of this type of culture, and this pattern represents it.
Dirt Pattern 25 Disrespect is a huge part of upcoming cultures. As women of second world countries deal with tougher issues than first world countries, I tried to take the colors of the persecution of the natural dye I made, and mix it with a traditional pattern from a history book, to make it ironic to represent famine and strife.
Fair Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, embroidery fiber, wood/ This pattern was meant to be simple enough to be almost not even modern in look, to symbolize how deep our ancestry is with the origin's of humanity.
Four Window Pattern 25 Wool, natural dye, embroidery fiber, wood/ This pattern was meant to symbolize the foundation of a house and the mix between the formality of Canadian fur companies like the ship routes from the Hudson Bay and the embroidery from immigrants.