Embroidery

Creative work of this master from Sumy region is many-sided. She models from clay, embroiders, cuts vytynankas from paper, makes folk dolls and Ukrainian costumes. She also teaches children in the local art school all this. The master has a large collection of ceremonial rushnyks.

Svitana is a master of embroidery and folk dolls from Kyiv region. She creates real Ukrainian souvenirs: embroidered bags for mobiles, different tiny dolls, bags in ethnic style, and in addition to all this she makes wooden amulets with ancient Slavic symbols.

Natalya is a master of embroidery from Cherkasy region. She makes copies of ancient rushnyks, shirts; reproduces original ornamental compositions as patterns in electronic formats; investigates embroidery in its every manifestation.

Dianah is a master of embroidery and bead-weaving from Bukovyna region. She creates rushnyks, women’s and men’s costumes in the regional style and traditional bead decorations to match them...

Dariah is a master of embroidery from Chernivtsy region. She ornaments women’s and men’s shirts, rushnyks, tea-cloths, pillow-cases and pictures with delicate Bukovyna lacy nets in red, black, green and yellow colors...

Olga is a Cherkasy master of embroidery and pysanka-making art - not an ordinary master but the head of Cherkasy center of folk masters. Together with them, Olga is reviving shirts and rushnyks made in local traditions and also the tradition of ornamenting pysankas...

Tetyana is a master of decorative embroidery from Cherkasy. She investigates and revives traditional folk shawls. The master has created a series of contemporary modernized shawls. She closely cooperates with Ukrainian designers...

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.

In spite of her young age, this master from Ternopil has extensive experience in needlework: she makes embroideries, creates knot-dolls in national costumes from fabrics and reconstructs ancient Ukrainian folk decorations from beads.

Mykhailo is a well-known embroiderer from Ternopil region. He is a master of a great number of embroidery techniques using which he decorates shirts, rushnyks, tea-cloths and runners. Besides, the master has one of the largest collections of folk embroidery patterns of Podillya, Bukovyna, Gutsul and Boykiv regions.

Sisters by birth, Natalka and Tetyana together create small wonders: ancient traditional oberegs of Ukrainian families – motanka-dolls. Tetyana combines colors and makes faces. Natalya invents magnificent ornaments and implements them in embroidery by counted satin-stitch.

Curious and restless master from Kyiv region tries her skills in different areas and styles of arts and crafts. Besides decorative embroidery she has mastered the technique of decorative painting, pysanka ornamenting, modeling from ceramic mass and dough. At present she takes great interest in decorative enamels...

Olha is a painter and a doll-maker from Dnipropetrovsk region. She started her creative work way back from painting clay toys of some master. Later Olha became so attracted to the folk creations that she began to make motanka-dolls, to embroider rushnyks and tea-cloths, and to make necklaces herself...

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 ...

One of the participants of the Ternopil creative association called "Berehynya" (the goddes of protection), to which about ten other local maters-embroideresses belong. As for Mariah Maksymiv, she has been occupied in embroidery for more than 60 years. Mariah started to work with needles and threads back in her early childhood.

This master is a real keeper (berehynya) of Ternopil embroidery tradition. Since 2005 she has been the head of a creative association bearing the same name. A lot of well-known local embroideresses belong to it. Together, they take part in different festivals; experiment with embroidery and revive ancient ornamental patterns.

It is difficult to say right from the start whether this artist from Luhansk region is more of a pysankar or of an embroideress. She is equally good at both: ornamenting pysankas and emroidering shirts, chemises and rushnyks.

Among the works of this embroideress from Ternopil there are a lot of those in which different embroidery techniques are combined: “pads”, chain stitch, catch stitch, hack weaving, counted satin-stitch, cross-stitch, open work, shtapivka, “nightingale eyes” (combination of four small squares made in counted satin-stitch with a tiny opening in the center), double (Bulgarian) cross-stitch. ...

This master from Mariupol, Donetsk region, first started embroidering at the age of 42, so she hasn’t let the threaded needle out of her hands for 9 years by now. Olena embroiders everyday: wedding rushnyks, shirts, chemises, tea-cloths and pictures...

She is a master of embroidery from Yasinuvata, Donetsk region. She has been occupied in the embroidery of shirts, chemises and pictures from the mid 90th...