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Textiles · Woman’s shirt

Woman’s shirt

Inv. no. Тк-5278 · Textiles

Project: Sloboda Ukraine Code. Ukrainian embroidery

Shirt of straight silhouette, "to the hem". The body of the shirt is sewn from six panels (body—from thinner, hem—from coarser canvas). The sleeve is straight, one-piece, with a gusset, gathered at the bottom and finished with a 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, "chicken scratch", "stem stitch" ("satin") oblique, "backstitch" ("stem"), hemming, "worm", hemstitch
Dimensions
132x71x68 cm (sleeve from neckline)

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

Description

Shirt of straight silhouette, "to the hem". The body of the shirt is sewn from six panels (body—from thinner, hem—from coarser canvas). The sleeve is straight, one-piece, with a gusset, gathered at the bottom and finished with a hem. The upper part of the sleeve and the body are densely ruffled near the neckline using the "sewing to the collar" technique. The neckline is round with a slit in the center front 35 cm long, finished with a narrow piping with two slit loops at the edges. The shirt is decorated with stylized plant (shoulder, hem), plant-geometric (sleeve) ornaments, embroidered "white on white" and geometric ornament, embroidered in red wool (hem). The sleeve on the shoulder is decorated with a horizontally placed branch with flowers ("stem stitch"). The sleeve field is filled with embroidery on the motif of "branches": vertical trunk and diagonal branches with leaves ("stem stitch", "chicken scratch"). The hem is hemmed with a "single column" and decorated with a wide stripe of hemstitch 5.5 cm wide with overlaid diagonal flowers with branches and leaves. The joining seams of the shirt body are decorated at the hem with a vertical zigzag line, executed in red wool ("worm").

Record

Inventory number
Тк-5278
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, "chicken scratch", "stem stitch" ("satin") oblique, "backstitch" ("stem"), hemming, "worm", hemstitch
Dimensions
132x71x68 cm (sleeve from neckline)
Place of creation
Ukraine, Sloboda Ukraine, Kharkiv province, Balakliia (?) county.

Updated 14 Oct 2026

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