When Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine began, Anastasia Boyko considered fleeing Ukraine to keep her three-month-old baby safe. She instead decided to help Ukraine's war effort using her ...
American actor Mark Hamill, who played the role of Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars", has announced that he has contributed a Ukrainian vyshyvanka (embroidered shirt) to a prize draw to raise funds for ...
The Oscar-winning American singer and actress Barbra Streisand recently displayed a ‘vyshyvanka’ embroidered shirt she received from United24, President Zelensky’s platform to support fund raising for ...
Every year during holidays, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Olena Zelenska appear in embroidered shirts, and each of them is more than just a wardrobe piece—it is a message. From traditional Dnipropetrovsk ...
People gathered in Kyiv on August 16 to pay tribute to fallen Ukrainian soldier Andriy Babinskiy who founded an annual march to celebrate his nation's traditional embroidered shirt, the vyshyvanka.
What is International Vyshyvanka Day? Vyshyvanka – which means embroidered shirts in Ukrainian – honours the nation’s folk tradition for the clothing item on the third Thursday of May every year – ...
The course will be led by Myroslava Boikiv, master embroiderer and weaver from the Ivano-Frankivsk region, who specializes in ancient methods of textile work in western Ukraine; she has worked for ...
President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda and his wife Diana Nauseda on the Vyshyvanka Day (Embroidered Shirt Day) in Ukraine, May 16, wore traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts and congratulated on ...