Woman’s shirt

Straight-cut 'do pidtochky' shirt. The lower part is sewn from three panels of homespun canvas, and the body from one panel of factory-made canvas, cut across. Straight sleeve with a gusset and insert sewn along the warp, decorated at the top with 'pukhlyky' (10 cm long), gathered at the bottom into fine pleats, and finished with a wide cuff (7 cm wide) with slit buttonholes and three buttons. The body and insert are densely gathered near the neckline using the 'sewing to the collar' technique. The neckline is round with a central front slit (27 cm long), finished with a narrow hem with a slit buttonhole and a button. The shirt is decorated with large stylized floral and geometric patterns, embroidered with red and black woolen threads (insert, sleeve, cuff) and white geometric pattern (hem). The insert is decorated with a horizontal pattern stripe of a garland of tulips with branches and leaves, framed above and below by zigzag lines ('cross-stitch'). The upper sleeve is decorated with a horizontal garland of roses (rosa centifolia) with branches and leaves, below which are four such roses placed separately ('cross-stitch'). The sleeve and insert are joined to each other and to the body with a black-red zigzag line ('cherv’yachok'). The cuff surface is covered with embroidered roses with branches, leaves, and buds, underlined above by a geometric pattern stripe ('cross-stitch'). The hem is hemmed with a 'single prutyk,' above which is an openwork stripe with holes ('openwork with laid thread'). The body’s panels at the hem are joined with a zigzag seam ('cherv’yachok').

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