Ukrainian traditional clothes

Ukrainian traditional clothes Every country has its own traditions. Also it has its own traditional clothes, holidays, songs and others. So today I want to tell about our Ukrainian traditional clothes – embroidered shirt. We often wear it on our traditional holidays. It`s more used in Western Ukraine, but it can often be seen in other regions. The embroidered shirts or «вишиванки» are very nice and colorful. Different ornaments show us the place of living of people wearing these shirts. There are many poems and songs about “vyshyvanky”. But the most interesting thing is that every region of Ukraine has its own embroidered shirt style. Now I`ll show you some of them.

Khmelnytskyi region Here people usually use cross stitching technic with a coarse thread. Also they have prevalent color. It`s usually black one but also it can contain red or cherry drops.

Kyiv region Here people usually make geometric patterns of plants in white, red and black colors. They prefer white color with green and red drops. On the shirt you can find hop, stylized grapes, rhombs and other. Earlier they used blue twisted cotton threads ÂŤzapolochÂť. But then they were replaced by black ones.

Vinnitsa region Here people are unrestricted in choice of color. But on every shirt you can find a leading color. People usually combine different technics such ascross-stitch, embroidery painting, flooring, cutting, different kinds of open work. Also they decorate it with contour seams and joint individual compositions.

Lviv region In this region people like to connect some kinds of patterns. On a white canvas overflow geometric dĂŠcor which gives a light look. To make the elements more sizeable they leave some place for a clear white canvas.