Lviv region

Masters from Lviv region are working on the revival of traditional Yavoriv toys. Prototypes of their work are folk toys that are preserved in the collections of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, Ethnographic Museum in Lviv, other museums and private collections. Besides that, they are trying to use their own creativity in this ...

Anatoly is a master of stained glass. For over 20 years he has been creating bright pictures from glass pieces of different colors having different themes: items for church, city and countryside landscapes etc...

Oksana is a doll-maker and a pysankar from Lviv. For nearly twenty years she has traditionally been ornamenting pysankas for the Easter. As for dolls, the master became interested in them not long ago but devotedly and with great inspiration...

Mariah is a master from Lviv region. She is occupied in creative work in lots of areas: making pysankas, folk dolls, straw spiders, vytynankas, painting, graphic arts, painting on fabrics, poetry and artistic photography. She copes with all this and she is a success in everything...

Vira is a master of the art of the pysanka, and is well-known among pysankary. She has authored several books about pysanky, and seeks out and preserves traditional pysanka designs. Vira has over 3000 pysanky in her pysanka collection, all of which she has written herself from ancient regional Ukrainian patterns.

Maria is a well-known pysankar from Lviv, from Ivano-Frankivsk by origin. She investigates pysankas from the entire region and reproduces them. Especially she likes Gutsul ones. Besides, she is interested in weaving on looms, straw weaving and motanka-dolls.

This Lviv master has started to study folk doll after she received one as present several years ago. Shortly after this she made a doll herself. By now Olena has a collection of motanka-dolls that she has created herself and she continues to experiment with them.

Myroslava is occupied in decorative textiles. She weaves rushnyks, bags, banners – “khoruhvy”, dresses, traditional gobelins and gobelins made using original technique of weaving on glass...

An artist from Lviv working in the stained glass technique. She owns a creative workshop where several journeymen create interesting panels, implement new ideas and offer professional design and manufacture of different kinds of unique works from stained glass under the artists’ supervision and with her participation.

A wood carver from Lviv region has devoted himself to the revival of the traditional Yavoriv toy. Together with his two brothers and the son they cut folk toys from aspen and decorate them with the local folk ornaments...

These Lviv artists continue the traditions of the Ukrainian blown glass and follow the work of their teachers. In this, they like to experiment with shape, colors and contents.

He is the one who has managed to catch the melody of raindrops and is able to play it even on a dry day. From cow-parship stems (Borshchivnyk or Borshchovyk in Ukrainian) the artist creates ancient musical instruments, in particular – doshchovytsyas...

An artist from Lviv creates experimental works in different areas of the traditional art. Beside everything, ethnic-modern woven cases for cell phones are amazing...

This experienced master creates Ukrainian clothes of high quality on an ancient loom. It spreads around warm atmosphere and powerful energy of earlier generations...