Embroidery

This master from Melytopol makes wonderful embroidered “Cossack rushnyks” on homespun fabric. She learned the craft of creating them from a Zaporozhye embroideress Svitlana Ignatchenko who had revived them in her time...

Due to their masterly needle techniques this Ternopil master’s hands give birth to embroidered rushnyks (national style towels), shirts and chemises, tea-cloths for different holidays, to the Easter in particular...

No evening gatherings and vechornytsy (revels of young people) in Ivan Honchar museum in Kiev can do without this master. Ms Holovnya works there as fabric restorer and teaches all the willing people to ornament the Easter eggs with colorful guardian signs.

Embroidered ties, bow-ties and men’s kerchiefs for tail-coats long ago became personal business cards of this Kyiv artist representing her creative work. These accessories for business clothes Tetyana has developed herself. She sews them from cross-stitching canvas and decorates with traditional patterns.

This national artist makes embroideries and toys. She is ready to speak for hours about the family of her dolls in which every one has its own purpose. According to the master, creation of these dolls is hard and very serious work that needs love and understanding of its aim...

This master of embroidery has created a real cult of such simple everyday things as bookmarks (to make reading more entertaining) and cases for cell phones (to communicate with more pleasure)...