Rushnyk - Ukrainian embroidered and woven ritual cloth. Pereiaslav, Ukraine.
A rushnyk or rushnik (Russian: Полотенце ручник, Ukrainian: рушник, Belarusian: ручнік, ručnik, Rusyn: ручник) is a decorative and ritual cloth. Made of linen or cotton it usually represents woven or embroidered designs, symbols and cryptograms of the ancient world.[1] They have been used in sacred East Slavic rituals, religious services and ceremonial events such as weddings and funerals.[2] Each region has its own designs and patterns with hidden meaning, passed down from generation to generation and studied by ethnographers.
There are many rushnyk collections in ethnographic museums. In Ukraine, the Rushnyk Museum is located in Pereiaslav, Ukraine as part of The Museum of Folk Architecture and Way of Life of Central Naddniprianshchyna. A Russian rushnik collection is housed at the Hermitage Museum.
^A Language of Their Own
Rushnyky are mirrors of a nation's cultural ancestral memory. The ritual ornaments on rushnyky preserved archaic magical signs, symbolism of colors and artistic folk styles, Kozak baroque and rococo as well as classicism, all of which continue to amaze us and are cherished to this day. They have a language of their own — cryptograms that have been forgotten but not lost.[1]
^Yakiv Bystrov, Marcin Kleban, Anna Niżegorodcew (2011). Developing Intercultural Competence through English: Focus. Jagiellonian University. p. 94. ISBN 9788323384366.
A rushnyk or rushnik (Russian: Полотенце ручник, Ukrainian: рушник, Belarusian: ручнік, ručnik, Rusyn: ручник) is a decorative and ritual cloth. Made...
They are reproduced in embroidery on national costumes, ritual cloth—rushnyks, painted on crockery, in forged products, in carving, in bas-relief house...
Embroidery motifs found in different parts of Ukraine are preserved in the Rushnyk Museum in Pereiaslav. National dress is woven and highly decorated. Weaving...
The Song about the Rushnyk (embroidered towel-cloth) (Ukrainian: Пісня про рушник, romanized: Pisnia pro rushnyk), a song also known as Rushnychok, Ballad...
Retrieved 2022-04-16. K, Roman (2012-08-07). "FolkCostume&Embroidery: Rushnyk embroidery of southern East Podillia". FolkCostume&Embroidery. Retrieved...
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submuseums: Museum of Bread, Museum of Land Transportation, Museum of Rushnyks (Ukrainian Decorative Towels), Museum of Space Exploration, Museum of Postal...
circle, is in the palace and two Zoryas stand in the exit, and on a peasant rushnyk from the Tver region where Zoryas on horseback rides up to the Sun, one...
a 3 metre long piect of linen fabric with embroidery at both ends. The rushnyk would be tied at the back of the head and left hanging; in the southern...
about 2005. Civil wedding ceremony in Ukraine. The cloth is a ceremonial rushnyk decorated with traditional Ukrainian embroidery. An example of a modern...
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