Dyma (clothes)

Dyma, dymka (Turk. dimi < Greek. δίμιος, δίμιον) is a type of home-spun canvas, a coarse canvas made of hemp, which was woven into strands (stripes) with a geometric ornament, alternating blue and white stripes. Skirts made of such cloth were called dima (dima). White linen aprons and skirts were worn with such skirts. Dymka was worn on weekdays by middle-class women throughout Ukraine, as well as by the common population (n.d. Boikas, Podolyans).

Dimko was also called skirts made of bump. This ancient fishing in the 19th century. took the Jews into their hands. They were called dymkar. During their free time from field work, they traveled from village to village and stopping at an inn, the dymkar would send an assistant on horseback around the village to announce his arrival. And then women carried raw or semi-bleached canvas for punching, from which skirts-dymkas, cords, and jackets were later sewn. Dymkar offered samples of dents on paper, and according to the selected motif, he took out boards with carvings, smeared paint on the boards with a brush and pressed the boards to the canvas, and so on until the end of the entire canvas. This work lasted several minutes and cost 3-4 kopecks. The paint dried quite quickly and such a skirt could be washed and painted and the paint did not fade.