Woman’s shirt

Shirt with a straight silhouette, 'body' (to the waist). Sewn from three panels. The sleeve is straight with a gusset and an insert, sewn along the base, straight at the bottom, hemmed with a double 'stem stitch,' decorated at the top with 'puff stitches' (11 cm long). The sleeve and insert on the back side are sewn with a double 'stem stitch.' The body and inserts are gathered at the neckline into small pleats using the 'sewing to the collar' technique. The neckline is oval with a 23 cm slit in the center front, finished with a narrow band stitched with triple 'stem stitch' and two buttonholes at the edges. The shirt is decorated with floral and geometrized floral ornaments in black and red threads. The insert has roses with branches and leaves (3.2 cm wide stripe). This embroidery is framed on both sides by an ornament of connected diamonds. The bottom of the sleeve is decorated with a 2 cm wide openwork stripe through the grid without a bar, followed by a single bar stripe 0.7 cm below. The openwork is framed on both sides by parallel stripes of a broken line ornament. Legend: The shirt was embroidered and used in the family of a participant in the 1905 peasant uprisings in the village of Staryi Saltiv (Kharkiv Governorate, Vovchansk County, later Kharkiv Oblast, Vovchansk District). Embroidered by Sytnyk Yukhymiya Pavlivna, wife of Sytnyk Saveliy Andriyanovych. Purchased by the Kharkiv Historical Museum's ethnographic expedition in 1959.