« 2018. #5 (143)

The Ethnology Notebooks, 2018, № 5 (143), 1132—1148

UDK 391:746.22.02](477.86)”189/20″

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.05.1132

Received  26.07.2018

LACE AND KNITTING IN THE NATIONAL DRESS OF HUTSULS OF RAKHIVSHCHYNA IN THE END OF XIX — THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY: LOCAL PECULIARITIES

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8742-4337

Kozakevych Olena Romanivna, Candidate of Sciences in Art Studies, research worker

Folk Art Department

of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Svobody Avenue 15, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine.

Contacts: e-mail: kozakevych.olena@gmail.com

 Abstrakt. On the basis of author`s field investigations, local features of national knitted and lace products in the dress of Hutsuls of Rakhiv district at the end of the XIX — the beginning of the XXI century are considered. The characteristic typological and artistic signs in general and local deletions of separate cells are highlighted. The unique and universal parameters of knitted (“woven”) and openwork artifacts in the context of Hutsul national clothes in chronological order are determined. A number of works, photos, narratives from respondents and local terms were introduced into the scientific circulation.

Keywords: knitting, lace, tradition, typology, local features, shirt, kaptchury, narakvytsi, keptar, serdak, additions, decoration, kytytsi, manufacturing techniques, technological ornament, artistic characteristics.

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