| It takes a tremendous amount of skill and patience to make a nesting doll.
Contrary to popular belief, the dolls is made from two separate pieces of wood--not a single piece cut in half and then hollowed out.
As you might imagine, lathing two separate pieces of wood so that they fit perfectly inside each other is no easy task. The men who perform this task are truly specialists. And young men apprentice for many years before they are entrusted with producing the dol "blanks."
These blanks are then handpainted by a team of specially trained women.
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