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Does the vyshyvanka have secret symbols? Why have geometric ornaments replaced floral ones? What’s the difference between an embroidered shirt and a stylized mass-market blouse? And why do some ...

The regions of Vyshyvanka Typically, Vyshyvankas are made out of linen and embroidered with a combination of six main colors of Ukrainian embroidery: white, black, red, blue, yellow, or green.

Ukrainian wrestling twins Dmystro and Maksym Chubenko need family to get green card to keep their Olympics dreams alive The wrestlers arrived in Columbus, Ohio, from worn-torn Ukraine in 2023 The ...

The Cayuga Museum of History & Art in Auburn will welcome back a local Ukrainian embroidery artist for two workshops this fall.

The Ukrainians using embroidery to stand up to Russia How artists, volunteers and designers turned a Ukrainian folk blouse and craft into symbols of defiance.

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 ...

The U-M Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia opened its exhibition “Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka,” Sept. 5.

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.