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Textiles · Woman’s shirt

Woman’s shirt

Inv. no. Тк-4646 · Textiles

Project: Sloboda Ukraine Code. Ukrainian embroidery

Women's shirt "long". Straight silhouette, body sewn from three panels. Long sleeve, continuous, with gusset, gathered at the bottom into fine pleats, on a cuff 2 cm wide. The body and sleeves are gathered near the neckline and shaped using the "sewing to the collar" technique. Full description

Date
20th century
Material
Fabric, home-produced fabric, material for decoration and weaving, thread, cotton, wool
Technique
Hand weaving, hand sewing, hand embroidery, surface embroidery, counted surface embroidery, "stem stitch" ("satin") oblique, "backstitch" ("stem"), "cross-stitch" oblique, joining seams, "gathering" ("surface")
Dimensions
126x69x70 cm (sleeve from neckline)

Photo: M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum · CC BY 4.0

Description

Women's shirt "long". Straight silhouette, body sewn from three panels. Long sleeve, continuous, with gusset, gathered at the bottom into fine pleats, on a cuff 2 cm wide. The body and sleeves are gathered near the neckline and shaped using the "sewing to the collar" technique. The neckline is oval, with a slit 34 cm long in the center front, with a narrow hem, which, like the front slit, is decorated with "backstitch". At the ends of the hem, two loop fasteners for a ribbon. The sleeve and hem of the shirt are embroidered "white on white" with bleached linen threads, the joining seams of the hem—with red and black wool using "satin", "gathering", "backstitch", "stick", "cross-stitch" techniques. On the shoulder, a horizontal stripe of pattern 3 cm wide, consisting of incomplete rhombuses, in the indentations and middle of which smaller rhombuses with four-petaled half-flowers at the top are inscribed. The pattern on two sides is outlined with a backstitch stripe, to which half-flowers are attached rhythmically repeating. On the sleeve in a checkerboard pattern, scattered "berehynias". The cuffs are outlined with buttonhole seam, and their middle is decorated with a pattern of "keys" and oblique crosses. On the hem, a horizontal stripe 1.7 cm wide is embroidered, consisting of a zigzag line with extensions, closed on two sides with "separating stick". The joining seams of the body at the hem at a height of 6 cm are decorated with two vertical rows of crosses.

Record

Inventory number
Тк-4646
Title
Woman’s shirt
Collection group
Textiles · Woman’s shirt
Date
20th century
Material
Fabric, home-produced fabric, material for decoration and weaving, thread, cotton, wool
Technique
Hand weaving, hand sewing, hand embroidery, surface embroidery, counted surface embroidery, "stem stitch" ("satin") oblique, "backstitch" ("stem"), "cross-stitch" oblique, joining seams, "gathering" ("surface")
Dimensions
126x69x70 cm (sleeve from neckline)
Place of creation
Ukraine, Sloboda Ukraine, Kharkiv province, Balakliia county (?), village Protopopivka.

Updated 14 Oct 2026

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