Vyshyvka Kozatskoji Starshyny 17-18 stolit [Embroidery of the Cossack Elite of the 17-18 c.]

One of Rodovid Press’s earliest and most popular publications, Vira Zaichenko’s Embroidery of the Cossack Elite of the 17th–18th Centuries (2001), is now available as part of the Pocket Series. The book presents an enormous collection of embroidery that was popular among the highest ranks of Ukrainian society during the 17th and 18th centuries. The embroidery on the everyday things belonging to the Cossack elite was done in silk, goldwork, and crewel. The collection at the V. V. Tarnovsky Chernhiv History Museum forms the basis of Zaichenko’s work