Probably, every Ukrainian - children and adults - have in the wardrobe at least one embroidery. We put on this special shirt during the holidays and on weekdays, feeling in embroidery extraordinary beauty, the relationship with our beautiful country and its wonderful people. Editorial kolobok.ua I gathered for you 15 facts about embroidery, which, for sure, will be a real discovery for you.
1. Embroidery - embroidered shirt of white linen (Even patching, but not necessarily white) and a wealth of traditional embroidered pattern Ukrainians worn only on holidays. On weekdays, it carried the so-called "budenki" - a tailored shirt of unbleached linen gray.
2. Embroidered patterns on the shirt was applied to the most vulnerable parts of the body - throat, chest and solar plexus.
3. It was essential that the back of the embroidered shirt was not nodules. It was believed that these nodules can cause errors and misfortunes in life, who will wear embroidered.
4. Embroidered in those days it was impossible to buy a default.Every girl, even if it belonged to a noble family, have been able to embroider. And in the villages every girl-bride before the wedding had to sew a special festive shirt to her fiance.
5. Embroidering a wedding gown for a loved one, she whispered an old spell-prayer allegiance. The people believed that if the shirt will lose its whiteness after washing, means "jumping cholovіk from buckwheat."
6. Before you start to embroider, girl or woman he fasted, prayed, and before each sunset embroidery hand soaps.
7. First shirt newborn baby Wearing sewn from parental things. People believed that in these clothes stores parental energy that will protect the child from the evil eye and diseases. Moreover, girls shirt made from mother's things, and the boys - from his father. The first patterns amulets were special: for girls embroidered shirt black pattern, a symbol of fertility, which in the future should protect against infertility. On the boy wore a shirt embroidered with blue and green, protected from natural disasters and accidents.
8. First shirt, made of a new fabric, gave the child to the third anniversary.Mom created for children of the unique embroidery Charm red threads - color akin to blood ties. On the children's mother often embroidered shirts animals - dogs, horses, chickens and roosters with fabulous birds.
9. In every region of Ukraine for embroidery shirt has its own style, pattern and color. For the center of Ukraine is characterized by black and white shirts, in Poltava wore white shirts with white embroidery, in Volyn and Chernihiv - shirts with red and white embroidery. The most colorful and vibrant embroidery needlewoman created in the south of Ukraine, and also in the Carpathians and Transcarpathia, Bukovina and Hutsul.
10. The most original Embroideries recognized Borshevskaya - are created only in the Ternopil region. Unique - luxurious black pattern on a white thin fabric - these shirts appeared, after the Turks to Tatars destroyed almost all the men in the village Barshchouka and women began to embroider and wearing mournful black and white shirts.
11. Embroidery experts counted more than 200 ancient seams 20 based on embroidery techniques (surface, spicate seam niz, nodules, shnurochek, woven seam, cutting, puncturing, goat, braided, hemstitch).
12. Each color in the embroidery has its symbolic significance: Red means love and passion, black - loss and longing, white - innocence and purity, yellow - joy and hope, blue - water, sky, calm and feminine.
13. Red poppies like pattern element only became popular in the early twentieth century, it has long since poppies are a symbol of death and sorrow. Black embroidered shirts traditionally worn in Ukraine widowers and elderly men.
14. The first mod, who wore embroidered with everyday clothing, was Ivan Franko. In this form the author is depicted on the 20-hryvnia banknote.
15. The most expensive in the history of embroidery Sorochinskaya presented at the fair in 2013. Cost unique embroidered shirts weighing 4 kilograms (!) Was 10 000 hryvnia.
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