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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2019, 1 (145), 81—91

UDK 745.52.031.4(477.86-2)”20″
DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2019.01.081

HUTSUL LIZHNYKS. TRADITIONS AND MODERN INTERPRETATIONS (based on the materials of Kosiv district of Ivano-Frankivsk region)

KNYSH Bogdana

Candidate of Sciences in Art Studies,

Kosiv’s Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts

Lviv National Academy of Arts

2, Mitskevych Str., 78600, Ivano-Frankivsk area, Kosiv, Ukraine,

Candidate of Art Studies, Ph.D,

38, Kubiiovycha Str., 79011, Lviv, Ukraine

Contacts: e-mail: bogdana1973@gmail.сom

Abstract. The article is dedicated to the traditional folk lizhnyk making, which currently exists on the territory of Hutsulshchyna. The forms and the technologies of its making were preserved, but the artistic style has the tendencies to change. The stages of the development of compositional schemes and local differences of folk Hutsul lizhnyk making in Kosiv, Verkhovyna districts of Ivano-Frankivsk Region, in Putyla, Vyzhnytsia districts of Chernivtsi region and Rakhiv district of Transcarpathian region are briefly represented in this article. The process of integrating traditions into the modern Hutsul folk lizhnyk production is considered mainly in the villages of Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Keywords: lizhnyk (woollen blanket), folk Hutsul lizhnyk making, traditional schemes and ornaments.

Received 3.02.2019

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