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Every year on the third Thursday of May, Ukrainians celebrate Vyshyvanka Day. Vyshyvanka is the Ukrainian word for an embroidered shirt or dress – a central piece to traditional Ukrainian clothing.

– Tell us how embroidered shirts differ in various regions of Ukraine. – Of course, each region has its own distinctions. This is seen in the embroidery's color scheme and palette.

The University of Michigan Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia opened its exhibition “Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka,” Sept. 5. The exhibit features five different types of ...

People gathered in Kyiv on August 16 to pay tribute to fallen Ukrainian soldier Andriy Babinskiy who founded an annual march to celebrate his nation's traditional embroidered shirt, the vyshyvanka.

Now, Alla has started learning older, more complex Ukrainian embroidery techniques, like a white-on-white open work approach called reshetylivka which her home region of Poltava is famous for.

Back in March both Queen Letizia and the first lady of Latvia Andre Levite wore a traditional Ukrainian vyshyvanka—a blouse or dress with traditional Ukrainian embroidery. Hopefully, this ...

Passion For Embroidery Lazko, 73, hails from the small village of Velika Novosilka, some 50 kilometers from Donetsk in southeastern Ukraine. She was born into a family of teachers.