Traditional Pysanky
Outline
TRADITIONAL UKRAINIAN FOLK PYSANKY
General information:
Soft Consonants, Apostrophes and the Soft Sign:
Two distinct traditional pysanka types
Sorokoklyn or “40 Triangles” Pysanky
Materials from Erast Binyashevsky
Western Podillia
Western Podillia, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia
Volyn and Eastern Podillia
Lemko, Boiko and Sloboda regions
Priashiv, Peremyshl and Pidliashia
Western Polissia
Eastern Podillia
Western Podillia
Zakarpattia
Pokuttia
Traditional Pattern Sheets
Regional Ukrainian Folk Pysanky
Полісся: Polissia region (western) Included with Volyn
Волинь: Volyn (“Volhynia”)
About Volyn
About Volynian Pysanky
Pysanky in the Lviv Ethnographic Museum
Plant and Agricultural Motifs 1
Plant and Agricultural Motifs 2
Pysanky with Scevomorphic Motifs
Pysanky from the Liuboml Region 1
Pysanky from the Liuboml Region 2
Pysanky from the Liuboml Region 3
Сокаль: Sokal (a small area between “Halychyna” and Volyn with very distinct decorative traditions)
Львівщина: Lviv region, i.e. Central Halychyna/Galicia (Includes Opillia and Roztochia)
Підляшшя, Холмщина: Pidliashia/Podlachia, Kholm region
Надсяння, Перемишльщина: Nadsiannia, Peremyshl region
Поділля: Podillia region
Geography
Pysanky of Podillia
Bukovyna
Pysanky of Bukovyna
Strozhynets (Сторожинець) raion
Podnistrovia (Подністров’я) region
Hutsulshchyna
About Hutsul Pysanky
Hutsul pysanka pattern (“Hearts”)
Kosmach (Mykolenko collection)
Kosmach (Eudokia Kushnierchuk)
Gallery (Hutsul pysanky from private collections)
Лемківшина (Lemkivshchyna): a history of the Lemko lands
Geography: where were the Lemko lands
Ethnography: about the Lemko people and their folkways
Pysanky: drop pull and linear batik
Books: books about Lemko pysanky
Index: books about Lemko pysanky
Лемкo pysanky: photos of Lemko pysanky, including those that I have recreated
Пряшів (Priashiv): about Slovakian Lemkivshchyna
Пряшів pysanky: photos of Lemko pysanky from the Priashiv region, including those that I have
recreated
Exhibit: photos of Lemko pysanky from Ukrainian exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum in the
spring of 2013.
“Greater Ukraine”
Podniprovia
Shcherbakivsky “Basic Elements of Ukrainian Pysanky”
Shcherbakivsky “Ornamentation of the Ukrainian House”
Cherkasy region
Mytsyk & Fusyn (Pysanky of Cherkasy)
