Rushnyk

Rushnyk made of white factory fabric, embroidered with red and black threads. The ornament is stylized floral and ornithomorphic with added text embroidery. The rushnyk features a three-tiered composition: 1) A wide stripe with three separate flexible rose branches with flowers, buds, leaves, tendrils, and butterflies; 2) A wavy rose branch with leaves and buds; 3) A wreath of two rose branches, closed at the top with a crown, with the letter «Zh» in the center, flanked by peacocks depicted in profile facing opposite directions. Between the tiers, at both ends of the rushnyk, there is text embroidery in two lines: «SKOLKA.YA.NI ZAREKAVSYA.PATOY.VU/LITSI.KHADITY.VADNU TSIPACHKU.VLY/UBIVSYA.NIMAGU.EE.ZABITY.ANNA./KOSTYUCHENKOVA.ANNA.ALEKSANDNOVA» («No matter how much I swore not to walk that street, I fell in love with one girl and cannot forget her, Kostyuchenkova Anna Alexandrovna.» Some letters are embroidered in mirror image). The edges of the rushnyk are finished with single-prong openwork. One side of the rushnyk is hand-hemmed.