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The show runs to the end of autumn
26 серпня 2026
An extension is agreed: six weeks were planned, ten remain.
The museum opened its stores for comparison
26 серпня 2026
Ritual towels and carpets from the collection hang beside contemporary work.
The largest exhibit is four metres across
26 серпня 2026
It took two days to hang: cloth of that weight needs distributed mounting.
Three regions in one hall
26 серпня 2026
Poltava, Lviv and Hutsul regions: three schools that almost never met.
Textile as an art in its own right
26 серпня 2026
Tapestry, lizhnyk, woven panel and author objects gather in one space as works, not decoration.
A dye recipe manual is due before the close
26 серпня 2026
Twenty recipes with steeping times and proportions, gathered from Kosiv-area weavers.
Dyeing is shown in an open workshop
26 серпня 2026
Once a week the vat stands in the hall itself, with extraction and commentary.
Lingonberry gives not colour but motif
26 серпня 2026
A fine scatter of red dots over dark green: berries in moss.
Madder holds on wool for decades
26 серпня 2026
A 1960s sample in the display has lost less tone than the 2000s synthetic beside it.
Red from root, green from leaf
26 серпня 2026
The show presents both dyes in the work and in the jar, before and after.
Part of the works will enter the museum collection
26 серпня 2026
Five lizhnyky will stay in Kosiv as a cross-section of the craft this decade.
The programme includes a day workshop for children
26 серпня 2026
Small frames instead of looms: a lizhnyk cannot be woven in a day, but the principle can be grasped.
Younger weavers are returning to natural dyes
26 серпня 2026
Not from tradition, but because synthetics fade in patches within ten years.
The craft rests on about ten families
26 серпня 2026
The exhibition names them, for the first time at this scale.
Twelve weavers of the Kosiv area in one hall
26 серпня 2026
From those who weave by their grandmothers' diagrams to those who draw the pattern in advance.
Fleece samples from eight breeds are shown alongside
26 серпня 2026
Visitors may touch them; with wool that is the only way to grasp the difference.
The show asks whether colour is needed at all
26 серпня 2026
The pattern here reads through texture alone, with no tonal contrast.
The lightest lizhnyk is made from lamb's wool
26 серпня 2026
It is finer, so the cloth came out nearly twice as light as the rest.
The difference between flocks shows more than dyeing
26 серпня 2026
Sheep from higher meadows give darker wool, and the transition between them looks softer.
Not one dye in the whole exhibition
26 серпня 2026
Every shade comes from the wool of different flocks, from cream to dark brown.
