Puppet miniature - multi-faceted hobby

The hobby for puppet miniature is quite a popular kind of hobby. Someone prefers only to collect miniature doll furniture and household items, someone is inclined to engage in their manufacture with their own hands. And it's not that one is reluctant to spend time on the fuss with the tool and it's easier to pay, but the other is sorry for the money and does not feel sorry for the time. These are simply two different hypostases of the same passion.

As an independent kind of hobby, puppet miniature goes back to the 17th century, when the first doll houses began to be made . These houses were created both for the game and for interior decoration. The first doll furniture was created by the same craftsmen who worked on creating and ordinary furniture. It was these people who laid down the principles according to which the ideal doll furniture should be made according to the same canons and from the same material as the real one.

For all categories of enthusiastic puppet miniatures currently have quite a lot of thematic Internet resources - for some they are online stores, for others - sites where master classes are published, useful tips on sharing experience. In addition to such sites, there is a large number of off-line products of a corresponding orientation, the DeAgostini Dream House magazine, for example, which is of interest both for those who collect only and for those who prefer to do everything themselves. Of course, there are a large number of shops (not only on the Internet) where you can buy already finished items of miniature doll life or some materials for their own production. In Russia, however, such stores are much smaller than, say, in Europe. Probably, this is due to the fact that the Russians had a long time to do something. And it was more important than dolls.

Qualitatively made miniature furniture makes us admire the skill of its creator, especially when it comes to handmade work done in a single copy. This is what motivates some people to buy such things, not sparing money, and others - to strive to do something like this, not sparing the time spent.

Puppet miniature is not only furniture and models of inanimate objects. Collectors prefer to fill their doll houses with small tenants, that is, puppets of the appropriate scale, and someone begins to seriously think about how to make a doll with their own hands, which will complement the homemade small interior.

Puppet miniature as a hobby is a person's desire to create his own small worlds, where everything is really: furniture is made of wood, cutlery is made of metal, puppet clothes are made of real fabric. If someone lacks, for example, financial or other opportunities to build their own home, then he can start making a small doll house according to his drawings and sketches, and then populate this house with extremely lovely images of his heart. Such an enthusiasm can give a person the opportunity to realize their fantasies, as well as feel like a representative of many professions - sculptor, designer, tailor, craftsman, etc., even if only with a miniature doll world.