Turning a Russian nesting doll on a lathe. Making nesting dolls as a business

Every person has their own little hobby. Any hobby can be turned into a means of income by building small business from scratch. This option is most suitable for entrepreneurs who do not have start-up capital. An interesting area is the production and sale of souvenirs, such as nesting dolls.

Ways to organize a business

There are several popular ways to make money on nesting dolls.

1. Engage in turning out products. This requires minimal knowledge of turning and your own workshop. Marketing research shows that this is an unprofitable direction. For wood workshops, demand is less than supply.

2. Buy blanks and paint them yourself. Only creative people can do this.

3. Become a mediator. Purchase blanks, hire an artist and find points of sale for products. Our business plan for making nesting dolls assumes exactly this option. But we will also consider the technology of production and painting of products, so that you can be realized in any direction.

Choose a suitable niche and make a competent plan. You can draw up a business plan or consult with specialists. The main thing is to adhere to the correct structure.

If you do not intend to hire employees and will sell products through Internet sites, intermediaries or souvenir shops, it is best to register as individual entrepreneur. The main advantages are ease of paperwork and minimal taxes.

If you are planning to establish a full-fledged manufacturing process, and it is planned to expand the project by producing other souvenir products, register an LLC. To pay taxes, select the simplified tax system.

Matryoshka manufacturing technology

1. Choice of wood. Linden, birch and aspen are suitable for this product. The tree is cut in winter or early spring. The barrel is processed and stored, constant airflow is ensured. It is important not to dry out the log. Drying time is about two years.

2. Grinding the first figure. The smallest nesting doll is made first. It does not open.

3. Grinding the following elements. Then the lower part is made for the next matryoshka. The upper part is immediately put on the bottom without drying out. This is done to ensure that the elements of the figures fit tightly to each other.

Turning process

Considering the large time costs of drying the wood and its considerable cost in prepared form, a more cost-effective direction would be to purchase ready-made figures and then paint them.

Nowadays, handmade work is valued, so it is best to paint nesting dolls by hand. This increases the cost of the toy. Each master's approach is individual. The thinner and more interesting work, the higher the cost of the product. Let's look at the detailed painting process.

Consumer interest in folk crafts today tends to develop, so you can open a very profitable business in this area. The beauty of selling souvenir products is that there will be high demand for them not only local residents, but also visitors and tourists. Making nesting dolls in this regard is very interesting view business, because a wooden doll of an original design is known throughout the world as a traditional Russian souvenir.

History of Matryoshka

The first such toy was brought to Moscow at the end of the 19th century from Japan. It was a figurine of a Buddhist saint, consisting of 5 figures nested inside each other. A Russian turner became interested in this idea and carved similar dolls out of wood, and one of the local artists painted their faces. Without thinking twice, the doll was given the name “Matryona”, and then they began to affectionately call her a matryoshka. In Russia they spread very quickly and began to be considered a symbol of the country.

Our business assessment:

Starting investment – ​​150,000 rubles.

Market saturation is average.

The difficulty of starting a business is 7/10.

Business options on nesting dolls

You can classify ways to earn money into wooden toys in the following way:

1. Turning blanks. It is enough to have minimal knowledge of turning and a small workshop to produce matryoshka blanks. But marketing research and practice shows that you need to take care of sales channels in advance, because the demand for wooden products (even if these are future nesting dolls) is not very high.
2. Painting blanks. These are potential clients of those who decide to engage in the first business option. For such a task you need even less - a set of paints and brushes plus the ability to draw. The portrait on the matryoshka can be anything, but buyers prefer female faces.
3. Intermediary services. In this case, you do not need to be able to grind and draw. It is enough to organize the entire structure: purchase blanks, hire artists and find ways to sell.

You can choose any of the proposed options or combine them, choosing as a business the production and painting of wooden nesting dolls or a full cycle of all works.

Manufacturing technology

For work, it is best to use dried linden, aspen, and birch. Drying is done outdoors under a canopy for 2-3 years. You cannot take raw wood, because... The finished matryoshka will be too fragile.

The matryoshka manufacturing technology has a certain algorithm that must be followed in order to obtain truly high-quality products:

1. The first step is to make the smallest nesting doll that does not open.
2. Next, there is a gradation of sizes with mandatory fitting of each turned part.
3. During the production of each nesting doll, the previous ones should remain closed and dry in this position. If you do not do this, the toy will not close.

Making a nesting doll with your own hands is a fascinating and interesting process. You can give your toys some special feature so that they become truly original.

Painting or printing

The painting technology also has a sequence:

1. Putty and primer of the workpiece.
2. Applying glue in a pattern.
3. Applying gold leaf if necessary (imitation gold).
4. Drawing the background and details of the portrait.
5. Stroke contours.

If over time your company develops to such an extent that it receives large orders, then hand painting alone will not be enough. But in this case, printing technologies, which today are at a fairly advanced level, will come to the rescue. high level. It will be possible to draw portraits of nesting dolls in graphic editors, and then stamp the products on special equipment.

Unconventional nesting dolls

Painting nesting dolls in the traditional style is quite difficult. And it’s unlikely that anyone will be able to replicate the faces of the famous Semyonovsk or Zagorsk beauties. Therefore, many people choose this type of business as making custom nesting dolls from photos. You can paint the nesting dolls as members big family, and this will be an excellent gift for any family celebration. You can do this kind of business at home by ordering blanks from a local workshop or on the Internet.

Portraits of famous personalities

If you have sufficient talent, then a portrait on a matryoshka can depict famous personalities. Foreign guests, for example, are very fond of buying portrait nesting dolls with the face of the president and other key people of the country.

Branded products

Corporate gifts and souvenirs today play an important role in running any business. Therefore, it is customary for companies to give branded gifts to colleagues. The production of nesting dolls with a logo can be an excellent help for expanding your business.

Investments

To organize a business on matryoshka dolls with full cycle, you will need about 150 thousand rubles. Cost items will include the following:

• rental of premises (workshop and painting workshop);
• equipment (machine for making nesting dolls, tables, brushes);
• consumables (wood, paints, varnishes);
• staff salaries;
• registration of individual entrepreneurs;
• advertising.

If you draw up a competent business plan, it is quite possible to get a consumer loan with an annual rate of 15 to 20%.

Profit

Each manufacturer values ​​their product differently. Finding a balance between product price and demand for it is difficult, but the right strategy plays a decisive role. The average cost of a matryoshka doll from 5 items is 400 rubles. Products made to order cost 2-3 times more.

In the first months, the production and sale of nesting dolls, if successful, can bring up to 25 thousand rubles in income. After 3-4 months, the profit increases to 40 thousand. Full payback occurs after 8 months, and with the constant development and expansion of sales markets, in just six months.

Making nesting dolls is an interesting business that can become very profitable if you tackle it wisely and calculatedly. And charming colorful beauties will give good mood every working day.

In the village of Polkhovsky Maidan Nizhny Novgorod region little has changed in hundreds of years. The same wooden houses with tiles. The same broken roads. The same linden forest. The same industry. For four centuries in a row, the most recognizable souvenir of Russia - the nesting doll - has been born in the local workshops.

The village peasants adopted the turning trade from the monks of the Sarov Monastery. At the beginning of the 20th century, wooden crafts began to be burned, and a little later - painted. It was then that the characteristic Maidan ornament and landscape compositional plot took shape.

Previously, there was a whole production called “Red Dawn”, where the entire village sharpened and painted nesting dolls. They even went from house to house and checked to see if anyone was sharpening their houses. But with collapse Soviet Union the factory was gone. The entire village now grinds at home. Today, the fishing tradition is continued by private entrepreneurs. The secrets of turning and the unique Polkhov-Maidan painting are passed down from father to son, from mother to daughter.

People live here simply. They work honestly. They harvest timber, which is then used to make wooden utensils and toys. The raw materials are taken from the forest. Those who don’t want to go to the forest buy wood, ordering a full car of ZIL (in winter the cost is 17,000 rubles), and in summer - 20,000. Residents say: “They’ll throw snags over half a car, you’ll figure it out yourself later. There is a forest 12 km from the village. There you buy a permit from a forester, and he shows you where you can cut and where you can’t. There are also people who chop without documents, but if they are caught, they will issue a fine of 100,000 rubles.”

A turning workshop is like a second home for the male half. Here they spend 10-12 hours a day. Otherwise, you won’t be able to make money from handicrafts.

Only at first glance they are twin sisters. In fact, no two are alike. Handmade.

The process of making nesting dolls begins with the selection of wood. Of the many types of trees, linden is chosen because it is very soft and easy to work with. Best time for procurement of material - early spring. The tree needs to dry to take its shape, after which the linden is sawn.

The lower part of the nesting doll is turned from dry wood that has dried for several years. The upper part is made of damp, since later the wood dries out, and therefore the nesting doll closes tightly. First, they sharpen the smallest one-piece single piece. Then proceed to the second, consisting of two parts.

From the inside, all the wood is removed so that the smaller doll fits snugly inside. Then the process is repeated for the doll bigger size etc. Afterwards the women paint the matryoshka oil paints. Cover with varnish.

Previously, fashion was in Moscow, you sharpen odnerkas, zuvyndochki, in our opinion, (odnerka is the smallest nesting doll, its size is 15 mm.). The thieves liked to hang it on their pants... and everywhere. Fashion used to be like this. It was worth one ruble. It was possible to get a hangover from him.

Previously, Maidan wooden products were sold only in neighboring villages. After lathes became electric, matryoshka dolls were seen in distant cities of Russia and other countries. From the fairgrounds Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow, round-sided beauties travel all over the world. They are packed in ordinary bales, Chinese bags, and dragged off-road.

In both rain and snow, they have to languish on the counter. Before anyone chooses a nesting doll from hundreds of competitors. There is little creativity in the nesting doll trade. This is business. In souvenir shops in Moscow and St. Petersburg, five-piece nesting dolls cost from 250 to 7,000 rubles.

In addition to the traditional dolls, there are also nesting dolls with portraits of heroes from fairy tales, as well as Easter eggs, whistles, Christmas trees, cockerels, clubs. The fashion for wooden products is changing. Demand creates supply.

One day Papa Carlo made a plan little boy Pinocchio. Everything was different with us. Maidan residents carved and painted a hard-working girl, smart and beautiful. She gave work to an entire village and became a symbol of all of Russia.

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According to a long tradition, legends are made about popular toys. In this regard, the nesting doll is no exception. They say that at the end of the 19th century, someone brought a Japanese chiseled figurine of the Buddhist saint Fukuruji to the Mamontov family - famous Russian industrialists and philanthropists - either from Paris or from the island of Honshu, which turned out to be a “surprise” - it was split into two parts. Hidden inside it was another, smaller one, which also consisted of two halves... There were five such dolls in total. It was assumed that this is what prompted the creation of our nesting doll by Russian craftsmen. Matryoshka - on behalf of Matryona. The birthplace of the new toy, which quickly gained fame as a national souvenir, was the workshop " Children's education"A.I. Mamontova in Moscow, where turner V.P. Zvezdochkin worked since 1898. Therefore, from that time we can count the age of the nesting doll. Despite its Moscow origin, the real birthplace of the nesting doll was Sergiev Posad near Moscow - the largest center in Russia handicraft production of toys, peculiar " toy capital". Mass production of nesting dolls began after the world exhibition in Paris in 1900, where the Russian toy made its successful debut. This was also influenced by the famous Russian seasons of S.P. Diaghilev. Since 1909, the Russian nesting doll has become a permanent participant in the Berlin exhibition and the annual handicraft market held at the beginning of the 20th century in London. After renaming in 1930 Sergiev Posad In Zagorsk, the style of painting nesting dolls began to be called “Zagorsk”. "Zagorsky style" - emphatically picturesque, with an abundance of carefully painted small parts and gilding - was replaced in 1930 by a more economical and closer to the original idea of ​​S.V. Malyutin (the artist who created his famous “Brendey” style in decorative and applied arts, for example: “a bull in a chamberlain’s costume”). When you mention the “Zagorsk” nesting doll, an image of a round-faced Russian girl in a scarf and a sundress covered with an apron, painted lushly and brightly with simple flowers, leaves and dots, appears before your eyes. The painting usually uses 3-4 colors - red or orange, yellow, green and blue - with the addition of black to outline the thin lines of the face and contours of clothing. After the socialist revolution, the production of nesting dolls became widespread. The factory opened. Until the end of 1980, there was a sense of simplicity in the shape and design of the toys, due to the need for their further replication. In addition to the “Zagorsky” nesting dolls, the “Semyonovsky” and “Merinovo” nesting dolls were famous abroad (the village of Merinovo near the town of Semenov in the Nizhny Novgorod region was famous for its turning products). In 1922, Merinovo master A.F. Mayorov bought a "Sergiev" toy. Arsenty Fedorovich himself carved a similar shape and, together with his daughters, painted it in his own way. Since then, this craft has remained the main one for Merinov craftsmen to this day. Distinctive features"Semyonovsky" style - a simple solution to the image, but brighter and more original in painting, reminiscent of a lush bouquet. Almost simultaneously with the “Merinovo” toys, another nesting doll appeared in the Volga region - in the village of Polkhovsky Maidan, or Polkhov Maidan in common parlance. Features of the "Polkhovskaya" nesting doll: a distinctly elongated shape (column), with a rigidly defined head. “Flowers with eyeliner” - painting along a pre-applied black outline - a typical painting in Polkhovsky Maidan. Perhaps the most complex manufacturing technology is the type of matryoshka doll - originally from Vyatka. Vyatka painting uses straw inlay. With all the abundance of subjects and ways of decorating a nesting doll, the “Sergiev” style is popular today: a shawl, an apron and a sundress are a must, with a bold combination of colors and Russian traditions. “Peasant” and “boyar” styles are equally popular. So, this is the tenth anniversary for the most popular Russian toy. Collection of nesting dolls in the collection Artistic and pedagogical toy museum in Sergiev Posad convinces us of the idea that this wooden figurine was conceived precisely as a toy that helps the child master such concepts as shape, color, quantity, size.

Matryoshka manufacturing technology

Sanding the workpiece. It is best to apply paint to a smooth, sanded surface. IN special cases putty and primer should also be used.

Applying glue. The glue on the matryoshka is applied in the form of a pattern.

In the future, this will serve as the basis for applying imitation gold plating - gold leaf. This wonderful material gives the product a golden shine and uniqueness.

Application of gold leaf.

Modern technologies and materials make it possible to create miracles and turn a piece of wood into a work of art. By the way, the works modern masters folk crafts in terms of quality of execution and entertainment are in many ways superior to the products of ancient artists.

Matryoshka is a native Russian toy depicting a rosy-cheeked girl. It is usually made of wood. This doll is unusual in that it contains the same nesting dolls, but one is smaller than the other. They are usually dressed in red sundresses and scarves.

Popularity of the Russian nesting doll

Matryoshka is a traditional souvenir of our country. Many believe that it brings happiness, wealth to the home and fertility to the family. In this regard, every tourist purchases it before departure.

But you don’t have to buy such a toy; you can make it with your own hands from available materials.

Initially, the nesting doll was carved only from wood and painted with bright colors. Currently, it can be made from any available material. This requires desire, patience and time. This craft will not leave either a child or an adult indifferent. And the manufacturing process itself will bring a lot of positive emotions.

How to sew a matryoshka doll from fabric

If you know how to sew, you can easily make such a doll. To make it you will need:

Manufacturing stages.

Using the same principle, you can make a felt toy.

Making crafts from cardboard

You can make this craft together with your child.. To make it you will need:

Manufacturing stages:

Now you can admire your creation together with your child.

Modeling toys from plasticine

Even he can fashion such a matryoshka doll Small child. For this you will need soft plasticine. different colors and a little patience.