Hina-ningyo are perhaps the most well known when it comes to the display of traditional ornamental dolls to pray for and celebrate the healthy growth and success of the household's children.

We picked up our first Vitra doll in a gallery in Tokyo and have since become enamoured by these little fellows. The family of colourful, folk-art inspired wooden dolls has welcomed a new member, who ...

SERGIYEV POSAD, Russia — Inna Kashnikova found her calling during a fourth-grade trip to a factory in this picturesque town that produces matryoshki, the wooden nesting dolls that are synonymous with ...