It was on a cool winter’s evening in the Balkan mountains that Boudica taught us how to create woollen dolls, traditional Bulgarian figurines: Мокро пластини
Any shape you want can be created from balls of wool. We made these for the Christmas concert scheduled a few days before Christmas.
There are two ways to create them: the first is the most common and requires special needles and a sponge. With this technique, you first roll the wool between your hands to get a shape similar to what you want, then you place the wool on the sponge and quickly prick it with little jabs to structure the shape.
If you don’t have needles, the second technique is to soak the piece of ball you want to structure in warm soapy water and roll it in your hands until you have a very compact texture.
And after a few hours, minutes for the most experienced, the figurines are ready!