Embroidery Day 2021: history of the holiday, beautiful poems and congratulations

Tomorrow all of Ukraine will celebrate the Embroidery Day. This is not just our oldest national dress. Vyshyvanka is also a powerful talisman against troubles and illnesses, into which our ancestors have invested their souls since ancient times. Undeservedly forgotten for many years, in recent years, embroidered shirt has firmly become fashionable. Now they wear it not only on holidays, but also on weekdays, they wear it with pleasure to work and in everyday life. On the eve of Embroidery Day, we decided to recall the traditions and history of this holiday. They also picked up congratulations for this day and beautiful poems about the sacred meaning of embroidery for every Ukrainian.

Embroidery day: the history of the holiday

Traditionally, Embroidery Day in Ukraine is celebrated on the third Thursday of May. This year, the memorable date falls on the 20th. This is one of the youngest holidays of independent Ukraine: they began to celebrate Embroidery Day since 2006. The idea arose spontaneously, from a flash mob of students in Chernivtsi. Once the writer and journalist Lesya Voronyuk simply invited her classmates at the university to come to study in embroidered shirts. At first, only a few dozen people wore ethnic shirts, but then a wave swept through all universities, schools and kindergartens. For several years, the local student action reached the all-Ukrainian level and acquired the status of a national holiday. Now Embroidery Day is celebrated throughout the country and abroad, in the Ukrainian diasporas around the world.

Thanks to the idea of ​​the students, embroidered shirt has turned from history crushed by dust into a modern trend. Now everyone, young and old, willingly dresses it, not only on holidays, but also on weekdays. And this not a thoughtless tribute to fashion: with the help of shirts embroidered with ethnic patterns, people emphasize their belonging to the nation, preserve and enhance the Ukrainian cultural tradition. On the eve of Embroidery Day, children in schools and kindergartens are told about the history and traditions of Ukrainian embroidery, explain what is the power of an embroidered shirt and what is hidden in beautiful patterns. This unobtrusively and very delicately instills in the child respect for national symbols, gives him the opportunity to feel like a part of an ancient and wise people.

Interesting facts about Ukrainian embroidery

• Embroidery for our ancestors was not so much clothing as powerful amulet from troubles, illnesses and misfortunes. That is why it was impossible to buy it in ancient times. It was believed that only a close person should embroider a shirt: at an early age, this is a mother, and at an older age, a girl prepared an embroidery for herself and for her future husband.
• Despite the generally accepted rules of embroidery, each region of Ukraine had its own, special combinations of patterns and colors. Therefore, at large events (for example, at fairs in large cities), it was always possible to accurately determine by clothes where a person was from.
• Traditionally, the shirt was embroidered on the throat, solar plexus and chest. It was believed that in this way you can protect the most vulnerable places on the human body. At the same time, great attention was paid to the accuracy of the embroidery: there should have been no knots on it either in the front or in the back. People believed that knots can "confuse" a person and cause irreparable mistakes and misfortunes in his life.
• It was impossible to start embroidery just like that. Before embroidering a shirt for herself or a loved one, a woman had to fast and confess. During embroidery, it was imperative to pray and "whisper" good luck and strength for the person to whom the embroidered shirt was intended.
• It was forbidden to embroider whatever came to mind on clothes. Embroidery patterns were regulated and divided into 4 large groups: geometric, plant, animal and anthropomorphic (human-like) ornaments. Floral ornament (flowers, leaves, branches and fruits of viburnum) was most often applied to women's clothing, but geometric patterns were an attribute of men's shirts.
• Each color used in embroidery has its own symbolic meaning. Red has long meant love and joy, and white - purity, innocence and purity (in many regions of Ukraine, shirts with white embroidery could only be worn by unmarried girls). Yellow symbolizes wealth, prosperity and luck, while blue brings purification, good health and peace of mind. Black color in embroidery has two meanings - it can be a symbol of fertile land, or it can be a sign of longing and sadness. Shirts completely embroidered with black threads were considered a sign of great sorrow.

Poems and congratulations to the Embroidery Day

I will pull up the zranka

Bila vishivanka,

I will braid my braid

I'm a red poppy

I am smitten with dew

Zilla on a svitanka

I go between people like that.

Hi usi navkolo

It's a new day,

Hi sleep guchno

Radіsnykh pіsen,

Bo seogodnі holy

(Ukrainian know!),

It's fun to celebrate

Vishyvanka Day!

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Mother's shirt was embroidered with blue

I put my soul and heart into the embroidery.

Yak of the memory of the national vidlunka,

On the canvas there were vizirunks,

De kozen christik - that life miti ...

Merezhila on a white blakitty,

I lay down the thread to the thread mіilo -

Ditya b happy share of vishiti,

Schhob became a talisman for the little tit

Nenya's hands are embroidered with a shirt.

***

Mustache near the headmasterє,

If I pull in the vishivanka.

Leave my heart radishly burned,

Move for a song.

If I draw in a vishivanka,

Nemov I confess in love

Your land is not a stick,

I will draw and pray to the Lord.

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Rise above the svit shire sonse vrantsi

We will exchange the first land for clear.

And I'm walking around in vichivants.

I am Ukrainian! I am proud of the cim.

In us, the amulets vishivayut long ago.

This tradition has taken root in the people.

Wonderful, everlastingly glorious.

In culture, until the present, she was spared.

Ani vikam, ni modi do not greet ...

Vaughn in the human heart and soul.

Have niy love, mriy, nadiy bagato

Don't forget to forget about these traditions.

***

I will get up early, on the day,

Yak slept on a little dew.

I will paint a vishyvanka in my svit_

І liven up, be honored by the beauty

In promіnnі sotsya. І my shirt

At the runes, in quits, it will come to life at once ...

From the charming quotes I will weave a vine

Th over svit shira song poplive.

The shirt, which matusya was embroidering,

Heart of greed, to amuse the soul.

Bo well mom, happy, she called out.

Tsey oberig in life to kill us.

***

I am vichy chemise kolorovu

Th by bilim svitі proudly in nіy pіdu.

It’s time for svitankov

Happily I know light at them.

I am Ukrainian! Even proud of him.

I carry my tradition of light

I don't ask for anything in God for myself,

Everything in me є: і burn, і hai,

Fields of fertile, in-water rivers,

Blue lakes, clear skies ...

I am synonymous with the earth from the clan and navi,

In the edge, de rug kazka and beauty.

I am a Ukrainian with a generous soul,

I carry hlib on the embroidered towels.

I am proud of my Ukraine

I take care of beauty in my heart,

History, tradition and song,

The truth is Kobzar's word-thought ...

Well, I'll emboss the vishivanka to my heart

I believe, my dawn is coming.

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