The embroidery symbolism contains a hidden meaning. She can save you from trouble, give you good luck and prosperity. Or, on the contrary, an unfamiliar symbol will doom the bearer of the embroidered shirt to carry out a “program” that is unusual for him in terms of age and life purpose.
It is believed that it is better for men to wear embroidered shirts with geometric patterns, women with floral patterns, and children with the symbol of an eight-pointed star.
What is embroidery?
This is a Ukrainian shirt with an embroidered ornament in the form of flowers or a geometric pattern. Each region of Ukraine has its own pattern and color of the thread.
Ornamental embroidery is divided into three groups. What do the patterns on embroidered shirts mean?
An ornament is a coded pattern that serves as a talisman. With its help, you can reflect the qualities of your character and change your destiny.
Geometric pattern
Intertwined with Slavic mythology.
- The rhombus is a symbol of fertility. It helps to multiply the clan and improve the well-being of the family. Our ancestors embroidered rhomboid patterns on wedding towels and clothes: rhombuses were divided into four parts by an oblique cross. In each part, a dot was placed in the center, representing the seed.
- The square symbolizes perfection, harmony and order.
- The spiral includes two symbols - water and the fluidity of time, its cyclical nature.
- The triangle represents the Holy Trinity and is the strongest Christian defense.
- Svargi (shaped like a half of an eight) are a sign of perfection. They symbolize the strength of the spirit.
- Kolovrat is a sign of the eternal victory of light over darkness, life over death.
- The eight-pointed star ("ruzha", in Transcarpathian) symbolizes the reunification of the male and female principles. People who wear this symbol have a highly developed intuition.
- Crosses have powerful protection against evil spirits and bring harmony to all endeavors.
Floral ornament
Flowers, branches and leaves reflect the purity and prosperity of the genus. Therefore, the wedding dress is embroidered with flowers. They mean constant renewal and infinity.
- Kalina is a symbol of rebirth. Red berries represent the immortality of the clan and the longevity of the family. She gives the girl beauty.
- Sunflowers are a symbol of the sun, which gives the wearer warmth, goodness and benefits.
- Chamomile is a sign of love and youth.
- Embroidery "poppies" - has an ambiguous meaning. Poppy protects from evil and promotes the fulfillment of desires. He is also a symbol of memory, orphanhood and widowhood. But be that as it may, a luxurious flower looks gorgeous when decorating textiles - on towels, bed linen, tablecloths.
- Lily is a symbol of purity, its bud creates a composition of continuous life.
- The rose symbolizes love and mercy. Rose patterns mean endless movement and eternal rebirth.
For married women, embroidery with bunches of berries and fruits is suitable.
- The apple tree is a symbol of all the best, because it gives tasty and healthy fruits.
- Grapes are a vital field on which the tree of the genus grows. It is a symbol of joy.
- Clover is the oldest emblem of unity and harmony.
- The tree of life symbolizes eternity. This is the most powerful guardian of the vitality of the family.
There should be no flowers on men's shirts, only leaves and fruits. They "program" luck for young guys.
- Oak leaves represent masculine strength.
- Acorns mean power.
- Bumps are purposefulness.
An embroidered shirt with a different symbolism is suitable for a middle-aged man.
- A laurel branch or wreath is an emblem of glory.
- Veles' symbol is a sign of wisdom, wealth and prosperity.
Embroidery of animals and birds
These are ritual symbols. They are rarely embroidered on clothes, but they have a special meaning on towels and amulets.
- Nightingales and cuckoos are signs of a girl's rushnyk.
- Swans, roosters, peacocks and pigeons symbolize newlyweds. On wedding towels, birds were placed looking at each other. A twig of viburnum in its beak is a symbol of femininity, loyalty and love. If the birds are sitting on a tree, they symbolize the birth of a new family. Mothers of the bride and groom often gave the young people towels depicting birds, blessing them for happiness, health and prosperity.
- Butterflies represent guardian angels.
- A horse is a sign of striving.
- The bear is the patron saint of hunting. It symbolizes life, supreme power, wisdom and strength.
Types of embroidered shirts: which one brings happiness?
If you want to change and solve problems in life, choose not only a beautiful embroidered shirt, but also a talisman for yourself.
- Embroidery in white on white (Reshetilovskaya) symbolizes purity and purity. It is worn by unmarried girls.
- The ornament with red threads represents good luck, fullness of life, joy and love. Red is a source of positive energy.
- Blue is the most powerful amulet. It protects from disease and brings peace of mind. In the old days, children and men were protected with blue embroidery.
- Yellow is the color of the sun and wheat. This is a sign of prosperity, joy, wealth and prosperity.
- Green symbolizes youth and renewal.
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- Black and white embroidery (Borshchevskaya) embodies light and shadow, good and evil. In terms of energy, black absorbs energy, and white radiates. If you combine Borshch ornaments and svarga in an embroidered shirt, it will become a talisman against cardiovascular diseases.
In an embroidered shirt that protects against misfortune and strengthens health, there are rhombuses. The ancient ornament has the strongest energy that brings the soul and body into harmony. The dot in the middle of the rhombus is the symbol of the sown field. It enhances the health of its owner.
Embroidery that brings good luck, contains the tree of life in its ornament. It symbolizes the connection between generations and releases well-being: the roots are our ancestors, the trunk is the present, and the branches are the future.
In embroidered shirts that attract love, the main element is svargi or triangles. They are endowed with the power of passion and fire.
- Singles and unmarried people need to wear shirts with swargs that “walk” clockwise or “look” at each other.
- The triangle symbolizes a man, a woman and their child. The figure with the top up is the masculine principle; unfolded to the bottom - feminine. With its tops, it resembles an hourglass, which accelerates the time of a long-awaited meeting with a loved one.
Embroidery ornament by region
Despite the similarity, the patterns of embroidered shirts in the regions of Ukraine differ in ornamentation and colors. There are more than a hundred known stitching techniques, but each one has specific features for its area. Sometimes one glance at the pattern and color scheme is enough to determine with certainty where the "roots" of the embroidered shirt come from.
- Chernihiv craftswomen are famous for their white-on-white embroidery. And ornaments combining red and black threads. The peculiarity of Chernihiv embroidered shirts is embroidery with small stitches. Chernihiv needlewomen, one of the few in Ukraine, use beads, striking a variety of geometric and floral patterns.
- Volyn embroidery is characterized by simple patterns of red thread on white and gray linen.
- In Slobozhanshchina, they embroider with a "cross" with coarse threads. Therefore, the patterns on the embroidered shirts seem to be embossed.
- Craftswomen from the Kiev region are distinguished by embroidering images of hop flowers, bunches of grapes, cones, a six-petal rosette, rhombuses and squares. Their works are dominated by red and white colors. To highlight the individual elements of the ornament, they trim them with black thread.
- Podolsk ornament is replete with bright colors. A characteristic feature - the main pattern is made in one color, small details are embroidered with multi-colored threads.
- In the Ternopil region, they embroider with dense stitches using cotton threads. You will recognize Ternopil embroidery by the ornament of the entire shirt sleeve. Often, only red or black is used, but the pattern is sheathed with a thread of a contrasting color. Therefore, the embroidery turns out to be convex, with an expressive pattern.
- Carpathian (Hutsul) embroidery is the most colorful. It features a variety of images of animals, flowers and geometric shapes in combination with each other on a white background. Craftswomen create compositions in red, yellow and green tones, giving the product a golden shine.
- In Bukovina, they embroider with a small cross, twisted stitch or white satin stitch using silver and gold threads, silk, wool and beads.
- In the Transcarpathian embroidered shirts, the zigzag ornament of the red and black color palette prevails.
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