A sheepskin hand-crafted vest, almost entirely covered in intricate and various circular, geometric and organic patterns embroidered in colorful wool.
vest
A fine woolen jacket, loosely fitting and simply embroidered in yellow along the perimeter.
jacket
Wide red trousers for a Hutsul region dancing costume.
dance costume
Embroidered man's shirt on linen. Straight cut with fitted sleeves, partial opening at the front, with pointed collar. Embroidered collar, placed on the chest, as well as both cuffs. Fastened at the neck and down the front with snaps. Embroidery stitch: cross stitch.
shirt
A Bukovynian woman's linen shirt, handmade and heavily embroidered the length of the sleeves in three sections, the middle is covered in patterns of white on white satin stitch geometric designs with scarlet accents, the shoulders covered in dark heavy curl stitch horizontal organic patterns with bands of gold and silver thread and the lower half covered in diagonal strips of dark beaded embroidery. The front of the bodice has vertical strips of embroidery while the skirt portion of this shirt consists of a cotton sack stamped 'Purest and Best 50 lbs. Windsor salt. Factory filled. The Canadian Salt co. Limited, Windsor, Ontario. Circa 1880s.
A woman's heavy linen hand-woven shirt embroidered in black and red cross stitch floral patterns on the sleeves, broad cuffs and collar from north Ukrainian Polissia (Rivne region), c. 1920s.
Embroidered shirt circa 1890-1930s. Long format with bottom half acting as a built-in slip. Embroidered on sleeves and on the bottom edge. This item is part of a complete set of traditional Ukrainian women's clothing from central Ukraine. It was worn with "plakhta". Embroidery stitch: hardanger (merezhka), cross stitch.
The bottom half of a traditional full-length hand-woven shirt from Borshchiv region with a wide hem of hardenger (merezhka) embroidery.
skirt
Two pieces of hand-woven fabric for a wrap-around skirt (zapaska) for a woman's hutsul costume. Primarily orange in colour with a horizontal weave incorporating threads of brown, red, yellow and metallic. One piece is for the front panel the other for the back.
A traditional hand-woven wrap skirt is divided into three sections. The designs at each end are identically striped while the centre is plain. Typical for Bukovyna.