This traditional Ukrainian Flower crown was made using paper, foil, wax, and wire, and techniques such as cutting, and encaustic, which is hot wax painting. Crowns such as this one were worn by women of marital age to represent purity.
This oil folk painting on fabric by Jarmolenko Panas displays a young woman wearing a traditional “Vinok” flower crown. These crowns were worn by women of marital age to signify purity.
This necklace was crafted with a cotton thread and painted beads. It was believed that objects such as this had a positive effect on a woman's health and beauty.
This Ukrainian wedding flower crown is made of paper, cotton fabric, paraffin, and wire. It was created in 1956 in Osichki of the Podilsk Raion of the Odesa Oblast.
A five-domed, two-story church made of stone with a faceted apse constructed between 1908-1909. After a fire in 2022, restoration on the church began and it was restored to its original appearance in 2011.
