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Vyshyvanka Day in Ukraine
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Vyshyvanka Day in Ukraine
Ukrainian embroidery is one of the types of folk national applied art (Photo: khoroshkov, depositphotos.com)
Every third Thursday of May, Ukraine celebrates Vyshyvanka Day (Ukr. Vyshyvanka Day) - a holiday designed to preserve national traditions and culture through the popularization of one of the most famous symbols of the Ukrainian national costume - vyshyvanka.
Ukrainian embroidery is one of the types of national folk arts and crafts associated with embroidery by hand or with the help of a sewing machine of patterns and ornaments on clothes (both men's and women's and children's), household items (towels, pillowcases, tablecloths).
The history of this type of art is very ancient, and therefore, along with the aesthetic side, designed to evoke pleasant, good feelings, to show beauty, embroidery also had an occult character, associated with the fact that ornaments and patterns served as amulets. Hence the variety of colors and types of ornament, where each of them was given its own meaning.
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The locations of the ornaments are also connected precisely with the protective function of embroidery. They are located at the places where the clothes go to the open parts of the body: the edges of the sleeves, the hem, the collar. There were characteristic differences in the pattern on men's and women's clothing, on clothes for boys and girls, young and old people. Their traditions in colors, as well as types of patterns are carefully preserved in different regions of Ukraine.
According to information circulated in the media and the Internet, the tradition of celebrating Vyshyvanka Day appeared in 2006 thanks to the initiative of a student of the National University of Chernivtsi, Lesya Voronyuk. Watching one of her classmates come to class in a national vyshyvanka shirt, and also meeting such shirts on some other students, she suggested to her friends and other students to choose one day a year when they would all wear vyshyvanka and come in it for lectures at the university. The initiative was supported by many students and even some of the teachers. From that moment, the formation of a stable tradition began, which grew into a national holiday.
Vyshyvanka Day is celebrated in different ways. Someone puts on an embroidered shirt and wears it to work, dresses children in it and sends them to kindergarten, someone comes to school or university in it. With the spread and growing popularity of the holiday, every third Thursday of May, festive processions in national costumes, meetings in the squares, as well as concerts, fairs and exhibitions, where you can see many men, women and children in bright national clothes, began to be held in many cities of Ukraine. In a number of cities, since 2012, there has been a tradition to give embroidered shirts to babies born on this day. The organizing committee of the holiday holds photo contests in embroidered shirts, including a family photo contest.
In addition to the desire to preserve the idea of national clothes, Vyshyvanka Day aims to preserve the traditions of its creation and wearing, as well as the history of the national costume.
Despite the fact that the holiday has no official status, its popularity is growing every year. The celebration becomes one of the ways to declare the uniqueness of the national culture, to emphasize its beauty and characteristic features.Every third Thursday of May, Ukraine celebrates Vyshyvanka Day (Ukr. Vyshyvanka Day) - a holiday designed to preserve national traditions and culture through the popularization of one of the most famous symbols of the Ukrainian national costume - vyshyvanka.
Ukrainian embroidery is one of the types of national folk arts and crafts associated with embroidery by hand or with the help of a sewing machine of patterns and ornaments on clothes (both men's and women's and children's), household items (towels, pillowcases, tablecloths).
The history of this type of art is very ancient, and therefore, along with the aesthetic side, designed to evoke pleasant, good feelings, to show beauty, embroidery also had an occult character, associated with the fact that ornaments and patterns served as amulets. Hence the variety of colors and types of ornament, where each of them was given its own meaning.
