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Woman’s shirt, inv. no. Тк-5273: photo 1 of 6
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Textiles · Woman’s shirt

Woman’s shirt

Inv. no. Тк-5273 · Textiles

Project: Sloboda Ukraine Code. Ukrainian embroidery

Shirt of straight silhouette, "to the hem", body sewn from thin canvas, hem—from coarser; the body of the shirt sewn from six panels. The sleeve is straight, one-piece, with a gusset, gathered at the bottom with small pleats and finished with a narrow hem. Full description

Date
20th century
Material
Fabric, home-produced fabric, bleached hemp canvas, material for decoration and weaving, thread, cotton, wool
Technique
Hand weaving, hand sewing, hand embroidery, surface embroidery, counted surface embroidery, "cross-stitch" oblique, "chicken scratch", "stem stitch" ("satin") oblique, "backstitch" ("stem"), transparent embroidery, "cutwork", hemming, "worm", hemstitch
Dimensions
117x68x70 (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 thin canvas, hem—from coarser; the body of the shirt sewn from six panels. The sleeve is straight, one-piece, with a gusset, gathered at the bottom with small pleats and finished with a narrow hem. The top of the sleeve and the body are finely ruffled near the neckline using the "sewing to the collar" technique. The neckline is round with a slit in the center front 28 cm long, hemmed with a narrow hem with two slit loops at the edges. The shirt is decorated with stylized plant-geometric ornament, executed "white on white" using "cutwork", "stem stitch", "chicken scratch" techniques (sleeve, hem) and geometric ornament, embroidered in black and red wool using "worm", "cross-stitch" techniques (hem). The sleeve on the shoulder is decorated with a horizontal stripe of ornament, composed of eight-petaled rosettes and triangles, outlined above and below with horizontal lines with "dots" and "pyramids" alternating. The sleeve field is filled with embroidery—a variant of an oak branch: vertical trunk, finished with a half-flower, and diagonal branches with leaves. The placket and hem are hemmed with a "single column". The hem is decorated with a horizontal stripe of embroidery (stylized flowers, separated by vertical columns with extensions). The joining seams of the panels along the hem are decorated with a zigzag line—"trunk" with stylized branches.

Record

Inventory number
Тк-5273
Title
Woman’s shirt
Collection group
Textiles · Woman’s shirt
Date
20th century
Material
Fabric, home-produced fabric, bleached hemp canvas, material for decoration and weaving, thread, cotton, wool
Technique
Hand weaving, hand sewing, hand embroidery, surface embroidery, counted surface embroidery, "cross-stitch" oblique, "chicken scratch", "stem stitch" ("satin") oblique, "backstitch" ("stem"), transparent embroidery, "cutwork", hemming, "worm", hemstitch
Dimensions
117x68x70 (sleeve from neckline)
Place of creation
Ukraine, Sloboda Ukraine, Kharkiv prov., Balakliia(?) county.

Updated 14 Oct 2026

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