Woman’s shirt

Shirt 'to the hem,' made of hemp canvas, sewn from six panels (bodice from finer, hem from coarser canvas). Straight silhouette, sleeve with a gusset and inset sewn along the warp, decorated at the bottom with 'puffy' gathers, on a thin cuff. The inset is attached to the bodice (on the back side) and to the sleeve with a double overcast stitch. The bodice and inset are gathered near the neckline into dense gathers using the 'sewing to the collar' technique. The neckline is oval, with a central slit on the front, finished with a narrow cuff decorated with a double overcast stitch and a row of cross-stitches. The chest is decorated with 'prutyk.' At the ends of the cuff, there are two slit loops for a ribbon. The insets and sleeves are embroidered in 'white on white' with hemp threads using the techniques of straight satin stitch, cutting, and openwork. Geometric pattern. On the inset, a narrow (2.5 cm) horizontal stripe of a pattern is composed of stylized leaflets (diamond-shaped) and half-diamonds, framed by two thin rows of openwork. Above, a pattern (3 cm wide) is composed of diamonds and half-diamonds, framed on both sides by straight lines with rhythmically repeated half-flowers. The sleeve field has a scattering of diamonds. The hem is hemmed with 'prutyk' and decorated with a narrow (1.5 cm) stripe of openwork, framed by two zigzags ('krulyky'). The 'krulyka' is embroidered with red and blue woolen thread using the surface stitching technique. Legend: According to the records in the inventory book TK-1, the shirt was received from the collection of the Museum of Sloboda Ukraine named after H.S. Skovoroda.