Masters Type

Weaving

Lesya Maydanets
Lesya is a well-known artist of decorative art from Kyiv. She creates batik (painting on silk), gobelins, carpets and gouache paintings...
Nina Sayenko
Nina is a hereditary artist of decorative art from Chernihiv region. She weaves carpets, gobelins, creates mosaic inlays from straw. Nina inherited her talent and love for art from her father – Alexander Sayenko. In her handiworks, the master combines art traditions of her father with her own perception of colors, their shades, shapes and ...
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.
Olexander Kovalchuk
Olexander is a well-known master of decorative weaving and painting on glass from Vinnytsya. He creates gobelins, paints icons and folk pictures. The author takes images for his works from Ukrainian legends, stories and beliefs.
Myroslava Rozhko
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...
Oksana Petrashchuk
The range of the master’s creative interests covers tapestry, fancy decoration of fabrics and doll-making. Tapestry was the first and the greatest passion of Oksana Petrashchuk. Today she can be said to have developed her own original way in tapestry weaving.
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...
Valentyna Tkach
An ancestral weaver from Bohuslav in Kiev region weaves carpets, runners, decorative pictures and chair covers in the national style. She teaches children this art and craft...
Mariah Vovkula
A weaver from Bohuslav, Kyiv region, creates traditional mats from wool on an old loom with her skillful hands. The master finds it especially comfortable working on this device because it was made by her husband many years ago.
Olexandra Prenko
An artist from Kirovohrad is a master of tapestry-making. Beside gobelins of high quality she is also famous for bright dolls weaved from threads. These dolls she invented herself in 2000 and received a certificate of authorship for them.
Solomia Butkovska
The artist creates gobelins the same way as paintings are made: usually, an appearing idea is realized in a sketch which is later implemented using real material. The only difference with painting is that the work is made not using paints but threads on a special frame...
Marichka Timenyk
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...
Olena Timenyk
This experienced master creates Ukrainian clothes of high quality on an ancient loom. It spreads around warm atmosphere and powerful energy of earlier generations...