Ukrainian vyshivanka: unique ornaments from different parts of the country

Ukrainian embroidery with her “painting” has always been considered a reliable guard against evil intentions and misfortunes. In different regions of Ukraine, the ornaments were different, but they did not lose their protective meaning. Often, it was determined from where the person came from.

North and Central Ukraine
On Vinichin, traditionally, they were embroidered with a cross, a bottom, a staple, a painting, a flooring, and they also used merezhka. The color scheme was also different: dark yellow, black, cherry, red, green. Among the most common figures are multicolored squares in which several colors were combined.

Zhytomyr region was characterized by a small cross and underreporting. Primary colors - red with black, patterns - lines, octagons, rhombuses, stars. Red was also used for Cherkasy embroidery with floral and geometric motifs.

In Kiev, there were coral-red, white, black colors. As patterns - plants - grapes, hops, viburnum and others. Grapes and berries were also embroidered in Kirovograd region, they used, as a rule, black and red colors.

A small cross, often with beads, was characteristic of Chernihiv region. Plant and abstract ornaments were embroidered with white threads with the addition of small colored elements.

In Poltava and Sumshchina often embroidered satin stitch. Mostly used white thread, but you could find gray, red, black colors.

For Dnepromerovschiny were embroidered, on which the cuffs of sleeves and collars were embroidered with black plaster and colored threads.

South of Ukraine
A cross-stitch was embroidered on Dresses in Red, black, blue and yellow. Prevailing geometric and floral ornaments. Red color loved in Zaporozhye. But there were flowers and berries embroidered in black.

Vegetable, floral, animal motifs could be found on embroidered shirts from Kherson. They were embroidered in black. Although often made it "white on white."

Red, black, gray and blue colors met on embroidered shirts from different regions of Nikolayevshchina. A distinctive feature of shirts - a quadrangular neckline and the free edge of the sleeves - without assemblies and cuffs.

In the Crimea, floral motifs could most often be found on embroidered shirts. Each flower on the embroidery had its own meaning: the female curved branch - variability and development; male tree - resilience and strength; carnation was a symbol of the elderly.

Western Ukraine
In Transcarpathia, they were embroidered with both colored threads and white ones. A peculiar ornament - zigzag forms. In Rivne region, they were mainly embroidered with white threads.

Lvivians between the geometric ornaments left empty places. So they tried to give volume to the pattern on the embroidery. In Ternopil region thick stitches tried to create relief. In Khmelnytsky region used a cross from coarse black threads.

Embroidery from Ivano-Frankivsk region used different patterns and colors of threads, so they were considered among the brightest and most beautiful. In Volyn, on the contrary - the rigor and clarity of geometric patterns. Although in the southern parts - floral ornaments.

In the territories of the present Chernivtsi region, they used the technique of a cross, a smooth surface and a twisted seam. The sleeves of the shirts were mostly fully embroidered. Often met floral ornaments. Although black and burgundy colors were preferred, embroidery was often decorated with silver, gold threads and sequins.

Eastern Ukraine
In the Kharkiv region, crosses and semi-crosses, made with coarse threads, were used, which gave volume. Used multicolored ornaments of different motives.

On Donechchina often it was possible to meet hemming and cutting.

Luhansk oblast embroidery looked like Poltava. Plants of plants and geometrical figures prevailed.

Embroidery ornaments from different parts of Ukraine have a special place, meaning and strength. Visit the auction section "Blouses, shirts, shirts" and see for yourself.