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15 October 2026

Ternopil Oblast

◇ Documented

Ternopil embroidery means, above all, the Borshchiv shirt: a sleeve almost entirely covered in woollen thread, dominated by black, with motifs outlined in colour, most often red. In 2020 Borshchiv folk embroidery was added to Ukraine's National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Almost everyone tells …

Motifs

Guelder rose with birds

A favourite motif of Borshchiv embroidery: a guelder rose between two birds.

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