Maria Chumarna. Kod ukrajins'koji vyshyvky. (The Code of the Ukrainian Embroidery)

"Feeling the live breathing of the space mystery encoded in the ancient culture of our ancestors, realizing the necessity of entering live sources of powerful rejuvenation of our modern life anew by touching the great Knowledge – this is the objective of the author of this unique research. The book offers samples of embroidery from all over Ukraine. It is demonstrated how far motives of Trypillya people, Egyptians, Sumerians, Incans, other ancient people were consonant with motives of modern Ukrainians. Decorative patterns replicated since the times of Trypillya and till nowadays, history and symbolism – all of this has been collected in one book by Maria Chumarna. This book is an attempt to reveal the sense of the encoded record of Ukraine imprinted on shirts and towels, trunks and altars. The same record exists in our genes and consciousness.

The publication is intended for all those who love Ukraine and the beauty of its hand-made masterpieces. The book contains very rich illustrative material – charts, photos, pictures."

In Ukrainian.

Chalk paper

Number of pages: 192, illustrated publication

Format: 208х288 mm

Cover: hard + dust-cover

Publisher: Apriori, Lviv

Table of Contents:

Vstup (Introduction):

- Skarby babusynoji skryni (Treasures of grandma's chest)

- Zvukovyy kljuch (Sound key)

- Koduvannja doli (Encoding the fate)

- Varvara ryzy tkala (Varvara wove vestries)

- Vyshyvka – tse kosmos (Embroidery is a space)

- Zirky i poznachennja (Stars and denotations)

- Trishky istoriji (A bit of history)

- "Jakby my vchylys‘..." ("If we learned...")

- Sakral‘na heometrija vsesvitu (Sacral geometry of the universe)

Section I: Svitobudova (The universe construction)

Section II: Tochka i kolo (Point and circle)

Section III: Trykutnyk, romb i kvadrat (Triangle, rhombus and square)

Section IV: Symvoly svitorukhu (Characters of light movement)

Section V: Kryvyy tanets‘ (Crooked dance)

Section VI: Varny svitu (Layers of the world)

Section VII: Kvitka zhyttja (Flower of life)

Section VIII: Oberehy doli (Mascots of fate)

Section IX: Na storozhi (On guard)