Woman’s shirt

Straight-cut 'do pidtochky' shirt. The body is sewn from six panels. Straight sleeve with a gusset and insert sewn along the warp, decorated at the bottom with 'pukhlyky' and finished with a narrow hem. The body and inserts are gathered near the neckline using the 'sewing to the collar' technique. The neckline is round with a central front slit (26 cm long), finished with a narrow hem with two slit buttonholes at the edges. The shirt is decorated with floral-geometric and geometric patterns, embroidered in 'white on white' (insert, sleeve, hem) and red geometric pattern (hem). The insert and upper sleeve are embroidered with horizontal stripes of openwork and surface embroidery with diamond and triangle motifs ('cutting,' 'straight lyshtva'). The sleeve is decorated with a vertical 'branch' motif composition of three stems with leaves, separated by diamonds and four-petal flowers ('cutting,' 'stebnivka,' 'straight lyshtva'). The hem is hemmed with a narrow openwork stitch, parallel to which is a wide openwork stripe with a diamond pattern. Between the openwork stitches is a red zigzag line ('diagonal cross-stitch'). The body’s connecting seams at the hem are decorated with a red 'gorodky' openwork seam.

Legend: According to the inventory book TK-1, the shirt belonged to the Museum of Sloboda Ukraine named after H.S. Skovoroda.