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 20th century Ukrainian flower crown originated in Podilla. It was hand made using wire, paper, and encaustic painting with wax. It is a beautiful depiction of lilies of the valley woven into a crown. In Ukraine, the lily is symbolic of innocence and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Because of this, It was not uncommon for these flower crowns to be worn at weddings by women, symbolizing purity as they entered their marriage.
Gerdan is a women's necklace made of red, orange, white, black, green, yellow beads by weaving. The geometric ornament is formed by "starlets" below the medallion, which depicts a rosette arranged in a rhombus. The necklace is finished with colorful, beaded beads.
Hryvnia, torkves - a fragment of neck ornament that had the form of a smooth or twisted hoop made of precious metal. In the historical period before Kievan Rus, most often from gold, later from silver. It was used as a monetary unit in Kyivan Rus. Gold jewelry from a rich burial of a Sarmatian leader of the 1st century.
A hoop shaped neck ornament, made up of twisted gold rods. Createated by the Sarmatian people and excavated from a 1st Century burial mount near Porohy in Vinnytsia Oblast. Torques of this kind were used as a monetary unit in Kyivan Rus'.
A polychrome gold diadem from the 1st half of the 5th century C.E. Gold plates decorated with amber, garnet, carnelian, grains (gold drops) on a bronze base. Weight: 50.25 g . Length: 23.5 cm.
A sketch of Iavors'kyi's costume for Sava Chalii, a play by Ivan Karpenko-Karyǐ, premiered on February 3, 1927 at the Berezil Theater in Kharkiv. Paper, watercolors, 68 х 27 cm.
