Art & Craft of Traditional Ukrainian Embroidery. Discover Ukraine!
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- 00:00 - Ancient history of Ukrainian embroidery.
04:30 - Embroidery in Ukrainian life.
06:15 - Regional peculiarities and symbols in embroidery patterns.
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Real life stories about russian war against independent Ukraine. Short war stories that the world needs to know. Ask your questions and get your answers. I am not a professional vlogger, but I feel TH-cam community needs more truth. Stand with Ukraine!
I wore my embroidered shirt today. Went to church in Ivano Frankivsk , a prayer for our defenders , Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦
Glory to Heroes 💙💛
Ukrainian embroidery is some of the most beautiful in the world. 💙🇺🇦
My mother taught me to embroider as a small boy and now I decorate things for my grandchildren. The world needs more Anna’s! Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦🇨🇦🌻
Thank you. Glory to Heroes
That is fantastic! One of my favorite male embroiderers and experts on Ukrainian clothing and accessories is Yuriy Melnychuk. Check him out if you want to.
Thank you @@ZhovtoBlakytniy just looked this man up 😊 I only found this old video with very views: TANDEM - Yuriy Melnychuk on the Ivan Honchar Museum. Does he have his own channel or website, or is there another site where I can view more of his material? Thanks in advance. I'd love to do a course in this technique one day. 💙💛
You may find more if you search him in Ukrainian Юрій Мельничук on TH-cam. He's featured in several videos on jewelry, embroidery, accessories in Ukrainian traditional clothing. He's also an embroidery instructor, so there are some videos on techniques. You might enjoy Irina Zaytseva Ірина Зайцева, too.
The war is an unnecessary tragedy but I appreciate Ukraine making the best of it by sharing its culture and history for many of us who may not have paid attention before.
Ironically, it brought more attention than ever and spread knowledge of Ukrainian culture as russia tries in vain again to remove it.
My Mother used to embroider - she was something of an amateur seamstress.
It's interesting to learn the hidden meanings in art. There almost always are.
Beautiful history!
Slava Ukraine!
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Thank you 🙏 Glory to Heroes
As a former ukrainian-canadian dancer, of course I loved wearing different vyshyvankas for performances, each one corresponding to the region of the dance. Now I proudly wear embroidered ukrainian blouses for their beauty alone. Glory to Ukraine and its magnificent culture. Thank you for this presentation dear Anna!❤
Thank you for watching 💛💙
Where can we buy these shirts outside Ukraine?
This video is what I love about you channel. You show how beautiful Ukrainian people and talent are. God preserve you and all of Ukraine.
Thank you 🙏
Beautiful
Slava to Ukraine 🇺🇦
Excellent!
Its nice to forget war and discover ukrainian culture!
We all need little breaks...well done!
Slava ukraine!
Glory to Heroes
Scottish islands fishing jumpers. These aren't fashion. They last with care, like Ukraine.
@@AnnafromUkraineI love your videos and have learned many things about the Ukrainian culture. I can't wait to go to the Ukraine victory party! I hope to meet you one day in person along with Jake, and Denys! Were you taught Spanish growing up at all?
The entire world is completely united in support for Ukraine. After its victory, I look forward to the day this beautiful country can become a place people can visit for themselves; to remember its sacrifices, but to celebrate its future.
The UK 🇬🇧 people proudly support Ukraine. 🇺🇦❤️🇬🇧👍🏻
Sadly there are some shameful countries who do not support Ukraine. They are on the wrong side of history. Perhaps their leaders should be labelled state sponsors of imperial expansionist criminality and be sanctioned.
I couldn't have said that any more perfectly. 👍
Beautiful insight in the life of Ukrainians. As always thank you Anna for your wonderful insight. Slava Ukraini!
Glory to Heroes 🇺🇦
Fascinating and amazing . I will get one when I visit Ukraine . Glory to the heroes .
Glory to Ukraine. Nice idea 😊
Thank you, Anna. Now I think I need some new clothes. Ukrainian clothes! Victory, Sovereignty and Freedom for Ukraine! 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
I am so happy you take time to teach us about wonderful Ukraine! Thank you
Textiles! This is right up my alley! My goodness these pieces are beautiful! There is some really good needle work going on there!
I also want to mention that Anna was interviewed in a "must see" piece on the TH-cam video series called "Silicone Curtain". I recommend it highly. You will learn a lot.
We should all get together (all of us who know how to embroider the world around) and make something which the soldiers can carry with them which will protect them from the Russians. Each one would be a reminder for them that there are people out here who care about them and want them to succeed. Also, it can serve as a warning to any Russians who see it that there are many people who are supporting the struggle for freedom, and that neither Ukrainians nor those of us supporting them will ever waver until every inch of Ukrainian land is again theirs, and Russia is put in a position where they can never again threaten Ukraine. Would anyone else be interested in such a project?
Slava Ukraini
Glory to Heroes 💙💛
Your Vyshyvanka is really beautiful ! It was fascinating to hear the symbology of Ukrainian embroidery, especially pre-Christian! Thanks for this really interesting information❤
Thank you 😊 Glad you liked it
Glad you have gotten back to the culture of Ukraine.
Thanks Anna! Lots of really lovely merchandise patterns within the culture of Ukrainian traditions. Geometric patterns are found in nature all over. ❣️Slava Ukraine! 💙💛🇺🇦💖🙏 Glory to Her Heroes!
Thanks, Anna and Sasha! Ukrainian embroidery is very beautiful. It's good to hear that you embroider things yourself. I'd love to see some of your work if you'd be willing to show it. Героям слава!
Thank you Anna and Sasha very interesting history and beautiful embroidery 💙💛
Thank you, Friend
Thank you for this video. There was one well known collecter of embroidery in former Czechoslovakia. Alice Masaryk the daugter of the first Czechoslovak president. She gathered quite extensive collection from all around Europe and I am sure there are some Ukrainian designs in there as well. She did see it as an expression of personal identity of different peoples.
Yes, I’ve heard of her too
Your dresses looks very much like our Norwegian Bunad shirts. Very nicely embroidered and varies from region to region. Very beautiful.
Yes my Great Aunts and maternal grandmother who had Finnish heritage, also did a lot of embroidery too! Beautiful traditions!
So interesting, I do feel 🇺🇦 and 🇳🇴 have a lot in common
@@AnnafromUkraine Yes, sort of. In the middle ages rich people and royalties sent their sons to Kiev to be educated, and some times they brought home a local girl to be their wives. Norwegian princesses also married Kievan Princes. Also a lot of young men went down there to be mercenary soldiers.
No doubt some of our culture has roots in Kiev.
The Grand Dutchy of Lithuania may have brought it even closer to us.
@@bavpazz I should have mentioned that. You'll find the same also in the Baltic countries.
Some patterns remind me of embroidery of the Balkan, and of India. Embroidery is a treasure and I really like to learn more about Ukrainian embroidery, patterns and how to make them.
Anna, Thank You for the Ukranian history lesson. May your beautiful shirt bring you extra protection against evil (moskovy)
Thank you 😊
My Vyshyvanka is from Procrava a Hutsul village in the region of Kosov.and has gold threads aswell.I inherited two of these handmade masterpieces from my Grandad.Nice to hear Hutsuls mentioned .Excellent work Anna
*Kosiv
Lovely embroidery Anna.. This Reminds me of Tom Thumb.. I think it was a walt Disney film.. lots of folk tales come from Ukraine..It would be nice to cover them at some time in the future..🙏🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
So lovely !
Wonderful, I love learning more about Ukrainian embroidery and its symbolism. I will look for a piece with the tree of life that I can frame and display. The tree of life is such a universal symbol and having a Ukrainian example would be a real honor.
My grandmother Clara from Lviv was a skilled seamstress and she did embroidery as well in the Ukrainian style---mostly on linens. Thank you for showing us this lovely tradition! NY ❤AFU!!!
Interesting and beautiful. Thank you! 🇺🇦
Thank you for this cultural lesson on embroidery. The work is beautiful and helps me to appreciate these works of art. I really enjoy these looks at Ukrainian culture and life.
I like embroidery stuff. Actually very popular here in Appalachia Virginia. The Ukraine designs are very unique to Ukraine culture. Very interesting.
I look forward to an episode where you show us how to make borscht and other traditional Ukrainian favorites
Thank you for the idea
@@AnnafromUkraineMrs C,s scouse is world class...E...😊😊😊
I have seen Ukranian embroidery for years, people who are of Ukranian descent wear their clothes on special occasions.
The decorated eggs are equally beautiful. Thankfully they're emptied before decorating, otherwise we'd have to break the shells and the beauty is gone.
I wondered if different regions had different colours, patterns, and you answered that question.
Thank you for this magical video ! Ukrainian embroidery is absolutely beautiful ! I couldn't choose a pattern, all of them are gorgeous ! I'd be happy to learn ukrainian techniques and patterns with their symbolism, if you can give some links, I'd be really grateful ! Slava Ukraini !
A bit more here euromaidanpress.com/2016/05/19/secret-ancestral-codes-12-main-symbols-in-ukrainian-embroidery/ But there are a lot in Ukrainian language
@@AnnafromUkraine Thank you so much ! I'll try my best to understand ! Be safe, Anna !
Thank you Anna, that was very interesting. The embroidery is beautiful, each with their own meanings and colours. Glory to Ukraine forever!!!🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦💙💛❤️🇬🇧
Beautiful as always ❤
I have a great admiration for the embroidery on all the clothing and household items, this is beyond my abilities. Are you going to have any embroidered items in your merch? I would like to be able to get some. Stay Safe ! Slava Ukraini !💙💛👍
Thank you. We are thinking about that
So interesting Dear Anna ! I will be interested in embroidered placemats...@@AnnafromUkraine
Diakuyu for this highly interesting video documentary about the beautiful embroidery styles of Ukraine, Anna. I very much liked that Vyshyvanka style that President Zelensky was wearing, with the oak leaf embroidery. That map of Ukraine you briefly showed us, Anna, with the regional embroidery styles, that was also fascinating. Stay safe, Anna. Peremoha y!🇺🇦🔱Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦🔱
Glory to Heroes. Thank you for watching
I Ioved that too. He looked extra super handsome in that. He should wear it on State visits to allied countries!
True. Volodomir Zelensky is gorgeous and a real mensch.
He's also very lucky to have his beautiful wife Olena. She's so dignified as she goes around the world asking leaders of many countries for support for her homeland. She is the one who did not ask to become famous, but it happened to her anyway, and she's accepted it and done her duty with much grace.
I discovered vyshyvankas last autumn, when i saw the photo of the Zelenskys wearing their matching, but different, vysyvankas to celebrate their wedding anniversary. It was so cheerful and life affirming, that they could take a little time out (of the most exacting of jobs) to show the world that they are normal people who love each other, and won't be separated for long. And such a down-to-earth, non-ostentatious, way to celebrate (which would not cost a huge amount of money while their fellow-Ukrainians needed every hryvnia to supply the essentials to survive).
I hope there's an Ukrainian-language equivalent of the classic English-language song "We'll Meet Again" (sung by Vera Lynn, in the 1939-45 war), only in Ukrainian so that the soldiers and refugees can hold onto it and share it and be encouraged. (If there is such a Ukrainian song, a line from it can be turned into embroidery, perhaps?)
How about the line in the song Stefania, by the Kalush Orchestra, where the man says something like "no matter what happens, i will always find my way home"? (I've only read the English translation lyrics). I loved that song, and Carpet-Man the dancer, and the brilliant folklore costumes that the other musicians wore. I loved their combination of folk music and rap. I liked our Sam Ryder greatly, but the Kalush Orchestra deserved to win, they were in a higher league altogether. And Pink Hat Man got his vyshyvanka on!
Great video! Thank you for presenting us the Ukranian traditions.
I have a couple of colleagues from Ukraine, I'll ask them if they have a vyshyvanka 🙂
The interview with Jake Broe was excellent!
I was introduced to embroidery by one of my mom's friends. I didnt do well at it and did not do it again until i was ta teenager. My friends at school saw me doing some embroidery during a free period and liked it. People started asking me to decorate their jeans with designs they wanted. One boy told he want one thing but i could do whatever i thought up on the rest of the pants. When i finally finished them he was very happy. Said he wanted to hang them on his wall. A lit of orger people wanted my embroidery and i charged a small fee. Which is how i managed to save up money to leave my abusive home. I feel like embroidery help save my life and sanity. Plus it's beautiful.
Other than being taught the line stitch and the satin stitch by my mothers friend, i taught myself when i was older. When we lived in mexico for awhile we saw embroidery everywhere. I like the ukrainian embroidery because it is so complex as well as beautiful.
Hello Anna .... from CANADA
I was born in CROATIA & I also embroider a little bit ( men usually don't, but me & my uncle do ) . My
late MAMA was a prolific knitter &
embroider so I learned that from her.
I would love love love to own a vishiwanka & be proud to wear one .
PLEASE EVERYONE SUPPORT UKRAINE or we will lose this art and culture.
SLAVA UKRAINE ✌🇺🇦🇭🇷🇨🇦
I liked Житомирська область style best in the map.
My mom had Vyshyvanka, I would like to have one myself too. I can embroider, at least I used to, I am not going to try to make Vyshyvanka myself. If I come to Ukraine to buy Vyshyvanka, I think I am heading to Poltava.
Thanks for an interesting, educative and inspiring episode, Anna.
Stay safe. Slava Ukraini!
Anna, both my great-grandma and my grandma were avid embroider. I have a large piece from my grandma. It is a rose motive. I so appreciate your sharing the history and symbolism. Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇦
I really enjoyed your presentation on arts and crafts, and in particular embroidery in Ukraine. What a beautiful art form!
Love this look,💛🇺🇦💙❤️🇺🇲👍✌️🌹thank you Anna 😊
I think I posted before that my Grandmother used to embroider, i didn't mention my wife used to do some very fine cross stitching including silver and gold threads. I very much like embroidery from other parts of Europe especially the Traditional Styles that are Unique to various areas. I developed my love of it in my youth, when eaach year in the summer my town hosted and International Eistedford, whith musicial, singrs and dance troops from across the word, the tadition dress was breathtakingly wonderfull with the vry finest hand embroidery. Thank you for reminding me of those times Anna. Take care and Slava Ukraine
Thank you for watching
Slava Ukraine
Thank you for another interesting video Anna
Thank you for watching 💙💛
This makes me miss my grandmother so much.
Very interesting. I love Ukrainian shirts. They have beauty and spirit. 💙💛
Thank you ☺️
Love your presentation and I love Ukraine. Where can I buy the real thing (not a photo print on a tee shirt).
So many different styles, all lovely. I have to go over the choices maybe a few more times although I did take to the colorful Carpathian style strongly. It would be another way to show solidarity with Ukraine to support this tradition.
Thanks for the history lesson Anna. In the DP camp in Munich in 1945, my mother Hanya, kept her mother’s vyshyvanka from Zahirya and later made a pillow slip out of it when she immigrated to Canada with me in tow in 1953. It was buried with her at her age of 95. Vichnaya pamyat.
Made me think of getting a one for myself. Beautiful art form. TY Anna
Interesting..the symbolism and history is cool!
I just embroidered a vyshyvanka for my daughter, and sewn her the traditional costume of the Poltava region, where some of her paternal family is from. One of my favorite styles is from Borschiv, Ternopil Oblast for the same reason you like Bukovina embroidery.
I collect books that have the Ukrainian techniques outside of cross stitch (cross stitch has its place, but started to overshadow the specific styles used for centuries). I love all the regional costumes and think it all deserves to be preserved.
Thank you Anna for this explanation of the Ukrainian embroidery. A few month ago I followed Arne and Carlos, also on TH-cam, who talk about Norwegian embroidery and the traditional knitted sweaters, they also talk about the symbolism of the patterns and the family traditions. It’s good to see your other interests. Needless to say I hope this awful war stops soon. Slava Ukraine, Heroyam slava.
The more I learn about Ukraine from you, the more I want to visit and absorb the history, culture and food.
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I have a blue and yellow vyshyvanka that I bought from a Ukrainian festival. It’s truly handmade. Embroidery is blue. Blouse is yellow. 💙💛🇺🇦
Very interesting video, always nice to learn something new, thank you! Слава Україні 🇺🇦💪🏻
Señorita Anna, que hermosos diseños de tejidos, la habilidad, los patrones, los colores, no solo para prendas femeninas sino las masculinas también… es una habilidad o don que no todos tienen, soy uno, pero aprecio el arte, el simbolismo, lo más importante… la libertad de expresarse por este medio.
Gracias por tan hermoso blog… espero que en el futuro los diseños representen el valor, la perseverancia y la fuerza de voluntad para combatir tiranía y la violencia despiadada llevada contra vuestra hermosa y culturalmente rica nación… SLAVA UKRAINI, HEROYAM SLAVA… cuídense, abrazos fraternos 🫶🙏🫡🇺🇦🐈⬛
Thank you for making this video. I learned as a child, and very much admire the craftsmanship and beauty of Vishivanka.
Beautiful and interesting. I am a teacher in the Netherlands at a primary school for newcomers. Most pupils are from Ukrain and Syria. A few months ago 2 of my Ukrain pupils, 7 and 8 years old, wore their vyshyvanka on the occasion of a remembrance day in Ukrain. They were so beautiful and sooooo proud. It made me very emotional.
I love embroidering. Winter is coming....please, send me links to find patterns.😊
Wonderful, your interview with Jake Bro gave your subscribers a boost. More than 88k now, on your way to 100.000.
Hope so ☺️ Thank you 😊
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Such a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing the history of these beautiful works of art!
I have done any kind of needlework since I was about 5 years old. I have known about Ukrainian embroidery for quite a few years and do have a book with several great Ukrainian designs. Have thought about making a vyshyvanka for many years, and now I think it is about time I made one.... , Have been hoping for several months that you'd do a video about the Ukrainian embroidery, so thank you!
I have a Wonderfull OAK Tree OVER my Window Now as me Typing this, so much wildlife vistits or lives in it, Squirrels are always present 🐿💙💛💪👍
Thank you Anna for taking the time to create these fascinating posts.
The vyshyvanka you are wearing, together with the traditional jewellery look so beautiful.
Thanks for sharing this valuable history with us and I'm always looking forward to seeing your next one. Slava Ukraini !! 👍💙💛
:) i love the tradicional beautiful art in the Ukrainian Embroidery
Yes please, Anna. I would really appreciate links to how to learn Ukranian embroidery . Found this very interesting . Thanks so much for this video. Slava Ukraini, her people and culture. ❤🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧❤️
Our Native Americans have wonderful embroideries too
Thank you soo much for sharing your beautiful culture! Slava Ukraine ! Stay safe and have a peaceful day
Embroidery is beautiful. You made me remember our childhood. That was many years ago. We were a big family and always in need of jerseys, etc. When we were little, my mother taught us how to knit. Even my brothers learned. That was one way my mother could keep us together, have quality time with us and keep us from running around and playing in the neighbourhood. Our friends were welcome to visit. My mother had a lot of knitting needles and will let our friends knit as well. It was lovely times! The boys visiting was not impressed to learn how to knit. They will peep in and if we're knitting they'll say they want to ask my brother what homework from school they had. They were not even in the same school! After that she taught us how to crochet. My mother worked as nurse and her time off were limited and in that time off she did the more serious homework. We did not always had a domestic worker and had to iron our own clothes. Anna, I can't tell you everything, I'll need pages! And all because of embroidery. We embroiled our handkerchiefs as well. Warm greetings from South Africa.
I finally found a place to buy one of a shirt in Ukraine. I want to learn to embroider. I have been wanting one for long time. Such a wonderful episode. Thank you.
Yes, I have a vyshyvanka. It was a birthday gift from my wife. It's black linen with white and red geometric stitching, so definitely from western Ukraine but I'm not sure about the region.
Hello Anna 👋 Good Morning!
Anna, you are a national treasure!
Thanks for this offering. While embroidering, my people would pray protections with color & designs. I tend toward geometrics myself. I appreciated the history lesson too. Slava Ukraini
Beautiful. Embroidery too 🌞
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I am Irish Scottish and Cheyenne by blood heritage and I learned how to do embroidery and beadwork as a preteen. I still do it even today. I love Celtic knotwork and interlaced zoomorphic designs, as well as geometric patterns often seen in quilts and American Indian beadwork. My personal favorite colors are black (magic and mystery), blood red (physical realm), cobalt blue (spiritual realm and water), amethyst purple (spiritual divinity), and emerald green (active growing earth), and my favorite animal symbols include Tigers (personal power, fierceness, patience), Wolves (loyalty and family), Horses (strength and determination), Ravens (community and understanding, cleverness), Owls (to see beyond the surface, deeper understanding), Eagles (freedom, spiritual guidance), River Otters (playfulness and youthful joy), Dolphins (breath and communication), Orca (ancient family, spiritual lifetimes), Snakes (inner understanding, medicine, healing), as well as Scarab Beatles (life, death, rebirth), Dragonflies (magic, mystery, change), Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies (transformation of the higher self), and Monarch Butterflies (transformation of the physical self). Favorite fantasy creatures include Dragons (ancient knowledge and wisdom, richness of the soul), Griffins (strength, perseverance and adaptability), Unicorns (innocence, kindness, compassion), and Gargoyles (watchfulness, protection, guarding against evil). As someone who is an Ordained Pagan Clergy, everything has a particular meaning, and those meanings are very important connections to the self and the world/universe around me, both the tangible and intangible.
I am lucky enough to have 3 vyshyvankas. One was embroidered by my Baba and uses red and black. Another was embroidered in Ukraine during the 1960s or 1970s by one of my relatives, it's colors and design are reminiscent of the Hutsel region. The third was bought in Ukraine and probably has the least traditional design and color palette. I've had an interest in recreating my own vyshyvanka fir a while, so I've taken some classes over zoom from an instructor in Lviv. I would recommend that to anyone else who's interested in learning.
So interesting. Thank you for sharing 😊
@@carolwilliams8511 I'm glad you enjoyed reading about my vyshyvankas (which I now consider to be family heirlooms).
Anna, I;m sure there are many beautiful things.
Mrs C has watched this too ( a very keen quilting person, fan of embroidery ) what a cultured czt you are, Anna, cheers....E...😊
Thank you 😊
@@AnnafromUkrainetypo...cat...silly me...😅😅
I would like a Vyshyvanka with geometric embroidery as my family is from the west, but I also like the poppies and roses. I remember my mother had a green kerchief with red roses that I loved as a child. Some of our old Easter eggs (pysanka) looked like they had embroidery patterns on them. Even pottery decorated with red and black patterns that look like embroidery! I'm not great at sewing and never embroidered, so I'm hoping to find a handmade one in Ukraine when I visit! ❤👔🧵🪡🧶
Embroidery is a big part of traditional Welsh art, lace making is also a traditional Welsh craft, and along with wool (from the sheep to the ball) was a cottage industry that was a vital source of income for Welsh subsistent farmers, we were a poor nation back then, Welsh hill farmer's were self sufficient and bartered for what they needed within the community, money wasn't really a thing, but rent had to be paid to our English masters, that is where the cottage industry of spinning wool and lace making and embroidery came in.
What a wonderful array of beautiful patterns and designs! Quite a visual feast! Thank you Anna for sharing this!
Thank you for your Ukrainian culture segments. I like them a lot. I just recently made a vyshuvanka for myself and to hand down. It may not be traditional in the purest sense but it is special to me and contains Ukrainian symbols including tryzub. I wanted to post a picture but I can't figure out how. Also, I have been studying to learn Ukrainian for one year now. Love to you, Anna. Keep up your efforts! Слава Україні! Героям слава! 💙🇺🇦💛
Doing embroidery is relaxing creativity.
I enjoy your videos every day, even if the topics are mostly terrible. You give hope and the way you are gives me peace and I enjoy listening to you. I think it's great how you stand up for your country. I would particularly like it if at the end of your videos you would not only say Slava Ukraine but also Slava Europe. We are a family and we should all show that, we should use all the signals we have to understand that we are brothers and sisters. The war also has good sides, Ukraine today knows where it belongs and the EU finally sees that Ukraine belongs to us. We have to look for the good always and every day, even if the light can hardly be seen, but it is there and can be will only get brighter if we get more into it with each other. love from germany love from me Andi
I would love a shavanka (is my spelling right?). I would want one with a wild goose on it, either flying, or swimming. Geese have important significance in my life. It's a long story, and I won't go into why. Really though, any womens' shavanka would be wonderful though. I'm going to be looking at all the various patterns for them for a long time now. I knew of them before, but I'd never really looked closely. This video is starting me down that path. Thanks Anna, for showing us this beautiful art! It is different than the embroidery we are taught here in the United States, for the few of us who were taught at all.
Vyshyvanka 😊
I would love to own a vyshyvanka and is at the very top of my list of things to buy when it is safe to visit Ukraine. When Victory comes!
Glory to the Heroes
Great video, thank you so much. I really want to know more about the history and symbolism of this craft, which is exactly what you covered here with beautiful visuals and as usual clear presentation. I particularly enjoyed the regional details.
I thought you might mention Ivan Franko - I watched another vyshyvanka video months ago and they said he was the one who started wearing vyshyvanka shirts when walking around Lviv, when traditional embroidery had come to be seen as "something quaint from the countryside". The vyskyvanka museum is definitely on my list for my first visit to Ukraine, whenever that will be... and if I have a bit of money to spare by then I'd love to take embroidery lessons. A combined vyshyvanka and Ukrainian language workshop would be amazing!!
Much love from London ☺Слава Україні💙💛
I don't have one but I would love to. Perhaps an idea for your merchandise shop?
You gave me an idea for a scarf design that could be given to injured people in hospital to protect them and make them feel better.
What an interesting vlog.
Анічка, ти наймиліша дівчина, яку я бачив ❤️
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I love it! I love it! I love it! Beautiful explanation of embroidery in Ukraine. Thanks, and Slava Ukraine!
Anna, what a wonderful heritage you have! Worth defending at all costs! May Our Lady of Zarvanytsia , Andrey Sheptytsky, Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky, Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky and all Ukrainian saints, First Testament Prophets (Elijah, Ezekiel, Joel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Amos etc), Jewish holy men and women, St Michael, Raphael and Gabriel, all the angels, St Therese of Lisieux, St Benedict, St Mary MacKillop, St Joseph, St John Paul II and St George ask the Almighty to help Ukraine. May it be freed from Russian oppression. May all who have died RIP and may relatives and friends be comforted. May the angels protect Ukrainian defenders. God is always on the side of the oppressed, never the oppressor.
Anna, i was at the playground with my granddaughter yesterday, and heard "devai" at the swing next to me. I quickly turned and asked "Ukraine? " and the mamma nodded yes. I felt so bad for not knowing how to say "welcome here, happy you are safe". I really should have paid more attention to your language shorts.
Privet, a smile, and Slava ukraini would work. Plus their English is excellent.
UK will now send troops to Ukraine to fight alongside them against the Orcs.Finally a country who takes his responsabilty.Other countries should follow.
The English honouring their Budapest memorandum signature. About time. Very late. Might have stopped Russia