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« 2026. # 2 (188)

The Ethnology Notebooks. 2026. № 2 (188), 423—435

UDK 391:687.03](477)”19/20″

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

  • Received: 16.02.2026
  • Accepted: 17.03.2026
  • Published: ??.??.2026

TREASURY OF CLOTHING FABRIC

SAPELYAK Oksana

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org /0000-0001-8111-6563
  • PhD in History, Senior Research Associate,
  • Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy
  • Of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • Department of Modern Ethnology,
  • Active Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society,
  • 15, Prospekt Svoboda, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts:  e-mail:etnomod@ukr.net

Abstract. The relevance of the topic is due to a landmark event in Ukrainian ethnological and art history, namely: the publication of the book by Doctor of Art History Olena Nykorak «Ukrainian Folk Fabric of the 19th—20th Centuries. Typology, Localization, Artistic Features. Part II. Clothing Fabrics» as a continuation of the previous volume «Ukrainian Folk Fabric of the 19th—20th Centuries. Typology, Localization, Artistic Features. Part I. Interior Fabrics». This fundamental work is an exhaustive study of one of the oldest branches of Ukrainian folk culture.

The object of the study is the main scientific achievements of Olena Nykorak, her methodological consistency, coverage of materials, their systematization and generalizations. 

The subject of the study is significant scientific research on traditional folk fabrics in the western regions of Ukraine, transformational and innovative processes, and an interdisciplinary approach to the study of clothing woven products.

The purpose of the article is to highlight the multifaceted creative achievements of Olena Nykorak, her scientific findings based on the huge number of monuments of the material culture of Ukrainians collected by her, and generalizations regarding the characteristics of the local features of the works of individual centers in Ukrainian territories and the exclusivity of artifacts of Ukrainian culture among similar works of other peoples.

The source base of the research is the published works of Olena Nykorak in two volumes — «Ukrainian Folk Fabrics». The methodological basis of the research is the principle of systematicity, scientific objectivity and interdisciplinary approach.

Keywords: Olena Nykorak, research work, systematization, folk clothing, analytics, ethnology, art history, tradition, innovation.

REFERENCES

  • Nykorak, O. (2004). Ukrainian folk fabric of the 19th—20th centuries. Typology, localization, artistic features. Interior fabrics (based on materials from the western regions of Ukraine) (Part I). Lviv [in Ukrainian].
  • Holovatsky, Y. (1877). On folk clothing and decoration of the Rusyns or Russians in Galicia and seven-eastern Hungary. St. Petersburg [in Russian].
  • Shukhevych, V. (1997). Hutsulshchyna (Part 1,2). Verkhovyna [in Ukrainian]. 
  • Hnatyuk, V. (1900). Weaving in Eastern Galicia. Materials for Ukrainian-Russian Ethnography (Vol. III, pp. 12—26) [in Ukrainian].
  • Mateyko, K. (1977). Ukrainian Folk Clothing. Kyiv: Naukova dumka [in Ukrainian]. 
  • Stelmashchuk, H. (2013). Ukrainian Folk Headdresses. Lviv: Lviv National Academy of Arts [in Ukrainian].
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