When the child listens to the hadiths narrated by his grandmother or his mother, he entertains his imagination with the details and events of the story and would like to see the hero or heroine embodied in front of him, to share with his imagination the events of his story.

The artist, Amira Mamdouh, who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education and a Diploma in Fine Art Therapy from Helwan University, spoke about her learning of puppet design, saying to “The Seventh Day”: “I learned puppet design, by experience and by making use of my remnants of fabric, because in general I love manual work and I like to experiment. Any new need.

Another picture of a princess design

The plastic artist, children’s drawing teacher, and plastic art therapist added, speaking of her beginnings with puppet design, saying: “The beginning of my design for puppetry began by encouraging my little girl to read and integrate with stories, so she worked as the heroes of stories that she loved for puppets.”

Another image

‎Regarding the materials that Amira used in designing the brides, she said: “In the beginning, I used remnants of fabric, woolen threads, and fibers. Over time, I kept buying special fabric and wire to support the bride’s body and fabric colors to draw the features of the bride.”

‎Regarding the quality of Marwa’s clients, she said: “The first was mothers asking to transfer their children’s drawings to brides, and when I turned to transforming the heroes of the stories, publishing houses started asking me to implement the heroes of the stories and display them in the book fair.”

Transforming a story character into a doll

‎Amira talked about the difficulties she always faces in her work in the field of bridal design for children, saying, “The difficulties that I face in my work are that I can deliver a cloth of the same color as the character, and how I can make the bride look almost exactly.”

Another design for a princess

‎Amira concluded her speech by expressing her dream that she dreams of achieving in the future, saying: “My idea for my project is to grow more and have art exhibitions in Egypt and abroad.”

Princess doll