With miniatures used to mean mostly small paintings in Finland, e.g. portraits from the 19th century, which were used a bit like current school pictures as a keepsake and evidence of a loved one.

The word miniature has been in wider use in other parts of Europe, perhaps due to the larger number of miniature objects and the hobby (wealth) in that field.

We have mainly talked about dollhouse items and the dollhouse hobby. Nowadays, the word "miniature" is also used, because it's easy to find what you're looking for online if you're looking for dollhouse-sized items. Of course, all Dolls house-type searches also work. However, the most common scale, i.e. scale, has remained the same for us as well, it was introduced according to English units of measurement sometime a hundred years ago. So 1:12 comes from inch measurement. 1:12 means that the object is a twelfth part of a normal-sized object.

I freely make the objects compatible with the scale, so often small objects may be a bit large in scale, but always justified. My intention is that the object is visible to the naked eye, can be touched by hand and has enough material feel and details.

Are they dollhouse items? Yes, definitely and playful and art for grown-up collectors!

About jewelry there are also miniature objects. What could be a funnier topic than a doll's house: "I'd like to take that piece of jewelry to my doll house".

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