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23 October 2026

Kyiv City

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Kyiv embroidery is best known for the Brocard, or "soap", style: red and black floral cross-stitch patterns whose charts came packed with soap at the end of the 19th century. Kyiv and the Right Bank launched the style, and it spread further than any other …

Motifs

Bunch of grapes (Kyiv variation)

A common motif of Brocard embroidery: a plant ornament in cross stitch.

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