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Ukrainian Art&Culture online glossary of art terms covers movements, styles and techniques such as Impressionism, Printmaking, Video art and more.
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The body of folk and professional crafts centred on the town of Kosiv and nearby villages of Hutsulshchyna, above all Kosiv painted ceramics and hand weaving (lizhnyk blankets and carpets). These are two distinct traditions that share one centre and one training school.
The tradition of hand pattern weaving (perebir technique) of the town of Krolevets in Sumy Oblast, best known for the red-and-white Krolevets rushnyk.
A form of folk decorative ornamental painting that took shape in the mid-nineteenth century in the village of Petrykivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It is based on improvised floral compositions built from a few set types of brushstroke.
A historical and ethnographic region in south-western Ukraine covering almost all of Vinnytsia Oblast, the south of Khmelnytskyi and Ternopil oblasts and the north of Odesa Oblast, with distinctive traditions of nyz embroidery, carpet weaving and pottery.
The regional embroidery manner of the Poltava region, in which the pattern is worked in white thread on white cloth, combining counted satin stitch (lyshtva) with openwork techniques.