Masters Master's region

Ivano-Frankivsk region

Viktoria Boychuk
Victoria has been involved in various crafts since she was a child. Her grandmother taught her how to embroider when she was eight and she embroidered traditional Ukrainian patterns on the pillows, towels and shirts. She continued to hone her craft, studying the traditional techniques of painting Easter eggs. Being a student, she acquainted with ...
Nadiya Shcherbyuk
Nadiya is a master of embroidery from Ivano-Frankivsk region. During her entire life she has been occupied in Creative work using a needle with a thread. She embroiders traditional clothes, rushnyks, tea-cloths, icons and pictures.
Anton Mykytyuk
Anton is a potter from Ivano-Frankivsk region. He is interested in Hutsul and Trypillya themes. The master works at developing his own Pokuttya style which would be easily recognized by people as “Pokuttya ceramics”.
Olha Hutsulyak-Matsenko
Olha is an artist from Ternopil. She is occupied in gobelin weaving. The master chooses nature, customs, interesting characters and ceremonial events of her native region as themes for her works.
Lyudmyla Vonsul
Lyudmila is not only a master of embroidery from Ivano-Frankivsk region; she is also a student, a public figure, a deputy of the Horodenkivsk regional council, mother of three children and a clergyman’s wife. It’s a wonder how Lyudmila copes with all this. But as the master says whatever she is doing embroidery is ...
Hannah Shkriblyak
Hannah is a weaver from Kosivshchyna (a Hutsul region) with fifty years of experience. She weaves curative lizhnycks (blankets), verets (matting floor covering) and runners from woolen thread; in winter she weaves warm clothing items: sleeveless jackets, slippers, sweaters.
Vasylyna Botsvinko
A weaver from Verkhovyna district of Ivano-Frankivsk region keeps ten sheep and uses their wool for her handiworks: liznnycks (homespun blankets), carpets, runners, belts, zapaskas...
Mariah Chulack
The master is a representative of Ivano-Frankivsk region – a territory where the traditions of bead weaving have survived since XIX. The master creates decorative "fabrics" from tiny beads: gerdans (open-work collars made from beads), sylyankas (strings of beads), belts, ties...