ТК-4253
Rushnyk
- Century
- 20
- Size
- 134x48 cm
- Material
- Bleached canvas, cotton
- Technique
- Hand weaving, hand sewing, hand embroidery, 'cross-stitch,' 'satin stitch,' openwork mesh
- Place of creation
- Ukraine, Kharkiv region, village of Vasylivka
Description
Rushnyk made of bleached canvas, embroidered with red and black threads. Anthropomorphic, floral-geometric, and geometric ornament. Tiered composition: 5 women in profile facing right, holding a branch; the ornament of a strip of flowers with leaves and stylized fringe is repeated twice. Above the composition, a scattering of 8-pointed stars. The edges of the rushnyk are hemmed with 'single prutik' openwork mesh.