Handmade items inspired by the beauty, wonder and unity of Nature.  Created and crafted by artist Lesa Sevin

All dolls and puppets are available in global skin-tone colors

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I will be happy to make custom puppets for the story of your choice!  Please email me.

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The Queen Bee Fairy Tale Puppets

This puppet set includes three brothers, three princesses, a wise old gnome man, two ducks(one shown), honey bees, and felted ants.  The character puppets are about 12" - 14" inches tall, the ducks are 2" x 4", bees and ants are about 1/2" - 1" each.  The puppets are made from silks and printed cloths, velour, cotton, and weighted with wool and marbles.  They may come with embroidered eyes and lips, please specify in comments when ordering.  These puppets are very versatile and may also be used with other stories such as Rose Red and Snow White (see below).  The puppets are also available as standing puppets for table puppet plays.  Please email if you have any questions. 

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Summer Girl is dressed in glistening yellows, golds and a pastel rainbow palette of summer flowers.  She carries a basket of berries in one arm and watches as an orange butterfly alights on the other.

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Seasonal Earth Mother

The Seasonal Earth Mother is dressed in green wool and plant-dyed silks decorated with Indian hemp and woodland twigs, lichen, and cones.   She is draped with a felted wool cape and carries a broom for sweeping away the winter weather.  Her face and hands are made of cotton.

The Seasonal Earth Mother is a companion to the Seasonal doll set and is approximately 9 inches tall.

Seasonal Mother and Child - $36.00

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Wildflower Marionette/Mobile

The movement and warm colors of plants is expressed in the silk gown that the wildflower marionette wears. Her silks are hand-dyed with plant fibers, colored with pigments, and a rice paste resist defines the design through use of the Japanese katazome technique.  May be used as a marionette or as a mobile to hang above the nature table.
 

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Katazome Hand-Printed Scarves

The ancient rice paste printing technique katazome is practiced on silk gauze cloth to create wearable art scarves.

To create the scarves, I begin by cutting stencils out of mulberry paper for the designs.  The silk scarves are hand-printed with rice paste resist, natural dyes, pigments, and soy as a binder.  After pasting, printing, coloring, and washing out rice paste, each scarf is hemmed by hand and fixed to hold the color.

The scarves are available in both silk chiffon, and silk crinkle gauze.  Silk chiffon has an airy quality with a weighted graceful drape.  Silk crinkle gauze has a lighter draping quality which folds upon itself when worn.

There will be slight variations in color because each scarf is completely handmade.  These silk scarves may be gently washed and enjoyed for many years.