TRADITIONAL UKRAINIAN DRESS
June 27th, 2007
Folk costume is a basic element of a country’s culture and craft, closely tied with its whole history. Vasyl Boiko, a fellow at the Institute of Art, Folklore and Ethnography of the Academy of Arts and Science of Ukraine, writes that folk costume “distinguishes itself through its originality and the wealth of regional variations… The Ukrainian costume is a genuine encyclopedia of the people’s creativity. In it are synthesized the folk arts of weaving, style, sewing, adornment (embroidery, applique, trimming, etc.).”
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Hutsul band from Ivano-Frankivsk
June 25th, 2007
Hutsul band from Ivano-Frankivsk is performing Kolomyjka in center of the city
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