Embroidery is one of the oldest and favorite Ukrainian craft. Embroidery at beginning was made on the clothes near neck, sleeves, and cuffs and suppose to protect people from evil. Later embroidery has decorative meaning for clothes.
The Kolomyia's museum have exhibits from different regions and different villages. All regions has their own tradition of decoration clothes, their own technique of embroidery, their own colors. The embroidery made in Kosiv region are in hot yellow colors and made by technique call "half cross". Embroidery from Pystyn'village made by cross technique and made in orange, red and black colors. You can see on the picture one of the embroidered sleeve of woman shirt made by P. Diakiv in 1930 in village Pystyn' ( Kosiv region). You can see sleeve of woman shirt which was made in 1900 in village Verbovets' (Kosiv region) by cross technique and women blouse from village Chornoguzy (Chernivtsi region) made by F. Matsiuk in 1959.

Embroidery from Pystyn' Village	Embroidery from Verbovets' Village	Embroidery from Chornoguzy Village

In present time this tradition continue to develop and embroidery are used for decoration clothes, table clothes, towels, napkins, pillows. H. Herasymovych (1889-1974) from Kosiv city was good embroidery master and also big entuziast of collection the best examples of carpenting and embroidery. You can see her towels made in 1965 and 1966 accordingly by technique called "nyzynka". One more example of embroidered towels made by M. Saliuk in 1970 by "nyzynka" technique from Iv-Frankivs'k.

H. Herasymovych's Embroidered Towel	H. Herasymovych's Embroidered Towel	M. Saliuk's Embroidered Towels