In the course of history, Yavoriv Oblast developed its own methods of goldwork (this is a type of smooth embroidery, which in Lviv Oblast is called hapt), which gained wide popularity in this region. Each type of clothing corresponded to a specific technique, color, and ornamental motifs.
History
In the 19th century, in this area, stocking stuffers, kabats, and embroidered shirts were sewn from gray homespun cloth and richly embroidered with white and gray waxed linen threads, and from the end of the 19th century, with black and red. The patterns consisted of small motifs - "curves", "navels" in the technique of stemwork and crosses. The evolution of the artistic solution of yavoriv embroidery went in the direction of replacing the simplest fine-patterned geometric ornaments with complex floral compositions in a bright, rich range of colors.
At the end of the 19th century, Yavorivka goldwork was called "glorious Yavorivka". The patterns consisted of small motifs, such as "pine cones", "bunches", "trees", "knives", "curves", which were embroidered with a cross, "stevenvok".
It is characteristic that embroiderers almost did not embroider fabrics for interior use. Only in 1920, embroidered towels began to enter the interior of the Yavorivka hut. Yavoriv embroidery was mostly used in the decoration of women's and men's clothing.
In the 20s of the 20th century, floral ornaments, embroidered with colored threads along the contour of the pattern applied to the canvas, became widespread in the embroidery of the Yavoriv region. The predominant embroidery technique was a two-sided surface - hapt, which was combined with a stem seam, a goat, by a needle, and a chain. Craftswomen boldly used yellow, blue, green and red threads, creating decoratively expressive relief patterns of plant ornaments.
In the embroidery of Yavoriv clothes, ribbon, rosette, and vase compositions prevail. Already in the 20th century, bouquet motifs appeared, as well as the checkerboard arrangement of individual ornaments on shawls and aprons:
Everyday clothes were almost not decorated with embroidered ornaments, and connecting and edge seams also performed an aesthetic function. However, the embroidery, which is present on everyday shirts, coats, aprons, and shawls, was usually distinctly restrained in composition and color scheme.
Yavoriv handkerchiefs were brightly decorated, decorated with compositions that had the names "vason", "giltse", "kitets". The fine-patterned ornaments that adorned home linen products gave way to juicy, large-relief multicolored ornaments on factory-made colored fabric.