Slavic embroidery

Hello all, I recently received a request as to how to tell the difference between Ukrainian Bukovyna embroidery and Romanian Bucovina embroidery. There is no straightforward answer. In the local communities, the people know which village is inhabited by which ethnicity, and they could tell you, but there are no overarching rules which always apply. Nevertheless, there are regional differences, and some of these regions are overwhelmingly of one nationality or the other, only the central…

Embroidery on woman’s apron from the village of Zalipie, region of Kraków East, southern Poland. Photography by Stanisław Gadomski, 1970s, from the digitalized collection of Muzeum Miejskie w Tychach.

Embroidered headscarf from Wilanów (nowadays a southern district of Warsaw), central Poland. Photography by Stanisław Gadomski, 1970s, from the digitalized collection of Muzeum Miejskie w Tychach.