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Textiles · Woman’s shirt

Woman’s shirt

Inv. no. Тк-5268 · Textiles

Project: Sloboda Ukraine Code. Ukrainian embroidery

Shirt of straight silhouette, "to the hem" (body sewn from two panels, hem—from three). The sleeve is one-piece, with a gusset, gathered at the bottom into fine pleats using the "sewing to the collar" technique and finished with a cuff 4 cm wide. Full description

Date
20th century
Material
Fabric, home-produced fabric, bleached hemp canvas, bleached linen canvas, material for decoration and weaving, thread, cotton, wool
Technique
Hand weaving, hand sewing, hand embroidery, surface embroidery, counted surface embroidery, "chicken scratch", "stem stitch" ("satin") oblique, "backstitch" ("stem"), "cross-stitch" oblique, transparent embroidery, "cutwork", auxiliary decorative seams, buttonhole seam, hemstitch
Dimensions
129x68x62 cm (sleeve from neckline)

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

Description

Shirt of straight silhouette, "to the hem" (body sewn from two panels, hem—from three). The sleeve is one-piece, with a gusset, gathered at the bottom into fine pleats using the "sewing to the collar" technique and finished with a cuff 4 cm wide. The upper part of the sleeve and the body are gathered near the neckline into fine gathers using the "sewing to the collar" technique, the neckline is round, with a slit in the center front 29 cm long, finished with a narrow hem with two slit loops for threading a tie. The slit at the bottom is fixed with a fastener. The shirt is decorated with stylized plant and plant-geometric ornament, the plant ornament executed in black and red threads, the plant-geometric embroidered "white on white". On the shoulder, the sleeve is decorated with a horizontal stripe of embroidery (broken line with extensions), executed using the "cutwork" technique. The sleeve field is filled with a stylized vertical branch with diagonal branches with leaves ("cutwork", "chicken scratch", "stem stitch"). The cuff is decorated with a horizontal stripe of plant ornament in the form of a garland of flowers and leaves, bordered above and below by straight toothed lines ("cross-stitch"). The cuff edge is decorated with white and red overcast loops. The hem is hemmed with a "single column" and decorated with a stripe of stylized geometric ornament, executed using the "cutwork" technique. The joining seams of the shirt at the hem are decorated with two vertically placed eight-petaled flowers with a branch and leaves, embroidered with "cross-stitch" in red and black threads.

Record

Inventory number
Тк-5268
Title
Woman’s shirt
Collection group
Textiles · Woman’s shirt
Date
20th century
Material
Fabric, home-produced fabric, bleached hemp canvas, bleached linen canvas, material for decoration and weaving, thread, cotton, wool
Technique
Hand weaving, hand sewing, hand embroidery, surface embroidery, counted surface embroidery, "chicken scratch", "stem stitch" ("satin") oblique, "backstitch" ("stem"), "cross-stitch" oblique, transparent embroidery, "cutwork", auxiliary decorative seams, buttonhole seam, hemstitch
Dimensions
129x68x62 cm (sleeve from neckline)
Place of creation
Ukraine, Sloboda Ukraine, Kharkiv province, Balakliia county, village Yakovenkove.

Updated 14 Oct 2026

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