I received my first real Kokeshi doll as a present from my boyfriend when we had a eekend away in York a couple of weeks ago, and since then I have collected a few more, they are really cheery things to have around the place. My boyfriend has a dumpy little one in a yellow kimono sitting on top of his TV - she looks so serene
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OK, I will make a tutorial about how to make them - the only bit that really needs an explanation is shaping the hair and fitting it around the head, but I will try and make a tutorial to explain all of this
lol, I find dolls a bit creepy too, but not ones like this. I have seen, here on DA, a lot of very realistic looking dolls, I find them very very creepy, but Japanese Kokeshi dolls are by nature very stylised, having these simple shapes as they do, so I do not find them creepy at all.
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