TaleWorld

A group of small sewn gnomes in red and white toadstool caps, sitting together in a wicker basket in long grass, with a sunlit forest behind them.

TaleWorld is a small world that has been made by hand for ten years. Its houses are built, its people are sewn, and its streets are lit and photographed one table at a time. It has a workshop, a post office, and people who live in it.

The post office

Vasyl's Post

Vasyl is the postman of TaleWorld. He walks the village, sees what happens and writes it down. Some of what he writes leaves the world entirely and arrives in a real postbox.

Write to Gnome Vasyl
Ask whether he can carry a letter to a real postbox. Yulia reads every request herself before anything is ordered.

Enter the post office

The finished pieces

Handmade

Waldorf dolls, Gnomes & Whisperlings™, miniature creatures and wooden places begin at the same family table as the scenes around them.

Enter the handmade room

The guides

Quiet Making

The Quiet Making Series gathers photographed, printable guides for careful handwork at a small scale.

Enter Quiet Making

The workshop

Who makes TaleWorld

Yulia Didyk (Rybchenko) sews the dolls and builds, lights and photographs every set. Her father builds the wooden houses, furniture and toys. They work in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Enter the world and workshop