I have been poking around the net looking at Ukrainian cross stitch (khrestyk) embroidery. The motifs and traditional patterns are built up using a type of cross stitch referred to as “Nabiruvannia”.
Often traditional stitching is referred to as folk art but I see it as a living craft because people are adapting, creating and still using this type of embroidery. Used in costume , to decorate domestic textiles and used in religious rituals, many of the geometric and floral patterns that predominate hold symbolic meanings.
There are a large number of traditional Ukrainian embroidery charts available online provided free which could be worked using traditional techniques or converted for knitting.
I am also intersted in cross stitch patterns for making Ukrainian blouses.
Please contact me at marushka30@ yahoo. com with Ukrainian blouse in the subject line.
I am looking for more complex patterns. Has anyone found them?
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Thanks that is an excellent link
I am looking also for Ukrainian embroidery patterns. Have visited the site talked about. Also the site http://www.nvo.com/ukrainiangift/embroiderytechnique is a nice one with some patterns
Yuri the only patterns I have found are listed in this post – http://solo4.abac.com/lubakmetyk/‘ title=’ Ukrainian embroidery Patterns ‘ rel=”nofollow”> Ukrainian embroidery Patterns are online here.
I look for Ukrainian embroidery patterns and still found nothing. could you, please, give me some resource links on the web?
thanks a lot!