Carving

This master is a horn-carver. He creates decorations in the national and original styles. He processes cow’s horns manually in accordance with his original technology. This master’s decorations made from cow’s horns do not have any analogs in the world.

Volodymyr is a master of wood carving from Cherkasy region. He works in the area of the traditional carving and spoon making and he is a skillful master of wood modeling. The artist is a virtuoso in different techniques of artistic carving; he creates Ukrainian souvenirs. Creative work The carver works mostly in the area of ...

A tanner, a tailor, a carver, an artist-decorator, a farmer, a remarkable connoisseur of horse-breeding, Ukrainian history and, finally, he is an actor whom you’ve seen many times on TV and cinema screens. All this is said about a Poltava artist Vadym Obertas who was born to become a Cossack.

Using special tools and wood, Kyiv carver Volodymyr Inshakov makes household goods identical to those that were used by our ancestors, heroes of folk fairy tales and historical novels. They are wooden spoons, salt-cellars, knives, small barrels etc.

Poltava wood carver Volodymyr Markaryan works in the volumetric carving technique that has rather old traditions. Using his instruments, the master represents pictures from everyday life of Ukrainians; from mythology and fairy tales.

Alla is a well-known Ukrainian master of decorative wood carving and motanka-dolls manufacture. She is from Poltava. Since 2009 Alla has been the head of Poltava regional branch of National Union of Folk Craft Masters...

A musician, a flute player and a carver - all in one person, from Kyiv region. He can create flutes from any kind of wood: willow, linden, alder, oak, birch. But most of all the master likes willow because according to his words instruments from such wood sound “as they should do”.

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...

A spoon-maker by his ancestry born in a village of spoon-makers called Teptiivka in Kyiv region makes everyday household and kitchen things for various tastes from pieces of different wood (linden, maple, willow, pear, aspen) ranging from spoons and dippers to spindles and pipes...

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...

A carver from Kyiv creates powerful bulls and horses from wood. Earlier he used to make furniture and think that no one needed toys. But once he made several works for an exhibition and started to get numerous orders for toys...

The floor in the house of this master is covered by wooden sawdust instead of a carpet. This is the result of the creative work of Ivan Prykhodko who cuts guardian angels out of willow, as well as different symbols of the divine spirit – birds and odd magical animals...

Master of wood carving who is known first of all by his derkaches (derkach is a national noise instrument where the sound is obtained by means of rotation - a kind of a national rotating rattle)...