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08 November 2026

Poltava Oblast

◇ Documented

Poltava embroidery is above all white on white: lyshtva, cutwork and "nightingale eyes", where the pattern shows through relief rather than colour. Its best-known centre is Reshetylivka, whose white-on-white embroidery is on Ukraine's National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. You cannot see this embroidery from …

Motifs

Broken sprig

A plant motif of white satin stitch, a simplified version of the technically more demanding white-on-white technique.

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