LES BRODERIES HOUTSOULES from the Kobrynsky National Museum of Folk Art, Kolomyia, Ukraine

Olena Nykorak (Editor and Author), Raisa Zakharchuk-Chuhai (Author), Kateryna Susak (Author), Yaroslava Tkachuk and Dmytro Pozhodzhuk (Foreword), Ellen and Jean-Paul Veziant (Preface), Yuri Bilak (Photos) The artistic monograph “Hutsul Embroidery” is the first publication of its kind to present the panorama of the most typical examples of Hutsul embroidery as embodied in the collection of the Y. Kobrynsky Museum of the Folk Art of the Hutsul and Pokuttia Regions (Kolomyia, Ukraine). The reader is presented with unique creations that mesmerize one with the beauty of their composition and ornamental motifs, as well as with the clarity of the artistic and aesthetic characteristics of these works. These motifs are ancient symbols that have survived to the present day in the most varied of interpretations.