Rushnyk

Rectangular rushnyk made of white fabric, embroidered with white threads at the ends, hemmed with 'single prutik' openwork. The embroidery composition consists of three openwork bands with inlay: a wide central band and two narrower ones on either side. The ornament on the narrower bands is geometric with diamond-shaped motifs, while the wide band features a floral pattern of eight-pointed rosettes. Legend: The rushnyk was passed down to Dzhyoieva Svitlana Hryhorivna from her mother Yevdokiia Mykolaivna Ishkova (1900–1987) and grandmother Feodosiia Sydorenko (married name Porichka). The family of Feodosiia Sydorenko, a peasant girl who married a student, and Mykola Porichka lived in Kyiv. Yevdokiia Mykolaivna Porichka studied at a gymnasium, graduating around 1917 in Kyiv with a home teacher’s diploma. She married Hryhorii Vasyliovych Ishkov, a railway engineer, and moved to Kharkiv.