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.
The artifact was made by one of the Kyiv Master goldsmiths, Master Byshevs′kyǐ, for an unknown marriage around 1857. This crown was made for the crowning ceremony of Eastern Christian wedding tradition. The crown of marriage would be placed on the groom's head, with a similar one for the bride, to signify Jesus Christ’s victory over sin, evil, and death. This ceremony would typically have friends, family, and clergy members in attendance and involve prayers and hymns. “An Explanation of the Crowning Ceremony.” Melkite Eparchy of Newton, https://melkite.org/faith/faith-worship/an-explanation-of-the-crowning-ceremony.
A brass necklace containing two rows of bells, 11 on the bottom and 5 on the top, stamped from sheet metal. The bells are strung on a chain of twisted wire.
In the Kherson Region, Ksenia Malyukova and her creative group visited the village of Mala Kardashinka, Holoprystan district. This is an ancient farm of Oleshkiv Volost, Dnipro County, Tavriy Province, founded in 1837 as a result of the reorganization of the Kardashyn farms. The necklace looks quite unusual. In the South, such a glass necklace, similar to a bright Christmas tree decoration, was called "scales" and was worn on major holidays.
Odesa region. The reconstruction of an ancient wedding wreath from village of Zagnitkiv. There is a lot decorated with colored foil, drops of wax and "candies" - twisted cylinders made of corrugated paper.
