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05 November 2026

Lviv Oblast

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Lviv embroidery has no single style. The best known are the Sokal shirt, with black cross-stitch and stem stitch that leaves open white linen between the motifs, and the Yavoriv shirt, with dense, raised coloured satin stitch. One region, several completely different traditions: Lviv and …

Motifs

Sosonka (Yavoriv style)

A small element of Yavoriv embroidery with deliberately large negative space.

Sources

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