A Winter Night Descends.
The sounds have faded.
Every living being seeks warmth at home, while the darkness conceals twilight landscapes from view. All that remains before you is the soft canvas of the night sky, distant stars, and solitary footprints on the fluffy snow. Imagination begins to paint fairytale silhouettes in the darkness—and you surrender, embracing the rules of its game.
Artistic Design and Illustrations by Vasyl Chebanyk for the Book «The Hunchback of Notre-Dame» by Victor Hugo
Published by «Molod» in 1976.
Published by «Molod» in 1976.
The Bottom of a Kybalka (Traditional Ukrainian Bag). First Half of the 18th Century. Embroidery in Couched Stitch Technique.
Photograph from the book by Vira Zaichenko, «Embroidery of the Cossack Elite of the 17th-18th Centuries. Techniques». Published by «Rodovid» in 2006.
Photograph from the book by Vira Zaichenko, «Embroidery of the Cossack Elite of the 17th-18th Centuries. Techniques». Published by «Rodovid» in 2006.
Two Women. Brodky Village, Lviv Region. 1930s, Opillia.
Source: Online platform «Local History».
Source: Online platform «Local History».
Maria Vuytsyk, presumably Lviv, 1920s.
Source: Online platform «Local History».
Source: Online platform «Local History».
Maria Shtykh and Olha Kushnir, Halychany Village,
Horodok District, Lviv Region, 1950s.
Source: Online platform «Local History».
Horodok District, Lviv Region, 1950s.
Source: Online platform «Local History».
"Painted chest" from the archive of the National Center of Folk Culture "Ivan Honchar Museum," inventory number KN-15872.
Date of creation: 1909. Ethnographic region: Bukovyna. Techniques: carpentry / painting / carving.
Date of creation: 1909. Ethnographic region: Bukovyna. Techniques: carpentry / painting / carving.
Illustrations by D. Shavykin for the Book by Natalia Zabila «When the Moon Rises».
Published by «State Publishing House of Children's Literature of the Ukrainian SSR», Kyiv, 1963.
Published by «State Publishing House of Children's Literature of the Ukrainian SSR», Kyiv, 1963.
The «The Night Glimmers» Collection Embodies the Enigmatic Beauty of the Ukrainian Night
On dark fabric, the North Star shimmers, pasqueflowers bloom beneath your feet, and a winter butterfly soars high above the earth, leaving behind only the memory of its exquisite wing patterns.
