Vyshyvanki own hands: a diagram with a description

Vyshyvanka is a national Ukrainian dress that adorns anyone who wears it. Many people are interested in how to make such a garment yourself, how to embroider embroidery with their own hands.

History of embroidery

According to archaeologists, the history of embroidery has very deep roots. Another historian, Herodotus, in 425 BC wrote that the Scythians wear beautiful embroidered shirts with patterns. In Cherkassy, excavations were carried out, and a skillful embroidery was found with their own hands, the pattern of which was created in the fourth century AD. Trypillian culture also has motifs that are repeated on embroidery.

During the Neolithic period, they also wore such clothes. Then it was made from simple linen threads.

Motifs and patterns

These motifs are geometric, plant, zoomorphic. Geometric patterns include zigzags, rhombuses, circles, ovals, the sign of "infinity". Vegetative patterns show the beauty of the surrounding world, and most often there are among them "grapes", "hops", "viburnum", "oak leaves". All these patterns are combined in a certain sequence, and each region has its own combination of motifs for decorating products.

Embroideries with their own hands are often decorated with a pattern of viburnum, because this pattern symbolizes the power of the moon, the sun and the stars. Grapes on this clothing symbolize the joy and harmony of family life, and the red poppy protects the shirt owner from the influence of evil forces.

As zoomorphic ornaments for embroidery, cuckoo, hare, rooster, fish, owl often act.

There are differences in the design of men's and women's clothing. So, women's embroideries were often decorated with flowers, and the male products depicted geometric patterns and oak leaves. Embroidered women's hands for unmarried girls had patterns mostly on their sleeves, and if they were worn by mature women, the patterns were concentrated on the chest.

Selection of material for embroidery

Such clothes will be useful to your child for any event in kindergarten and any extra-curricular event. First you need to select the material from which you will sew it.

There are different materials suitable for sewing such a garment. Chiffon is a thin fabric that can be both artificial and natural. Such embroidery with their own hands, which pattern is in fashion magazines, looks very elegant. There is also a minus in the creation of this product from chiffon: it is difficult to embroider on it.

Products of this type from gabardine are also worn well. Make gabardine from merino yarn (for it is used the wool of a breed of sheep, like merino). It is easy to wash, and this fabric does not crumple. Embroidered women's hands from gabardine perfectly match any figure.

It is best, of course, to use flax for embroideries. This is a rather expensive fabric, but the products made from it are beautiful. The most expensive kind of flax is the homespun cloth. Vyshyvanka with own hands, which schemes are known to all experienced craftsmen, from homespun cloth is in great demand. This canvas is produced manually, has a pronounced dirty white color.

You can also use factory flax, which is manufactured in production. Such material is well erased, it produces spectacular products.

Preparation for sewing

If you are interested in the process of creating embroidery with your own hands, then for it you must first make a pattern on paper or on film. And you need to know the size of the person to whom you will sew.

To sew a shirt with short sleeves, you will need a meter of linen fabric (if you count on sizes 42 -44). It is also done and embroidered man's own hands.

Also, for work will need thread like floss, preferably different colors. The most commonly used thread of red, pink, green flowers. Male variants often have a combination of red and black colors.

In order for an embroidered cross-stitch pattern to look beautiful, you need to use a special canvas. This mesh, which is attached to the main canvas, and after the work is pulled out.

Creating a shirt

So, we have a rectangle measuring half a meter in size, it will become the main part, and two rectangles measuring 46 by 20 centimeters, they will be useful for making sleeves.

It is very convenient for this scheme to make embroidery for the boy with his own hands. When you make a back, shelves and sleeves, then decorate them with a pattern of "hemline". It is very convenient to buy a canvas, the very bottom of which is pressed and there are holes on it. Then directly on them you can do embroidery.

Vyshyvanka with their own hands, the schemes of which are very diverse, can be a real work of folk fantasy and creativity. You need to decorate the shirt details before they join.

After all parts of the shirt are embroidered, you will need to connect them. This can be done manually, or you can use a sewing machine or overlock. In the latter case, your seams will hold better and look neater.

Different kinds of shirts

Vyshyvanki with their own hands are various. They can be decorated with both manual and machine embroidery.

Women's shirts can be tunic-shaped, can be with shoulder inserts, can be made on a coquette, can be with a solid one-piece sleeve.

Embroideries are divided into two types depending on how the pattern is made. There are shirts-"stripes", that is, shirts, which are simply sewn ribbons with a pattern, but there are those on which the pattern is embroidered directly on the material, that is, on flax. Experienced craftsmen who know how to embroider embroidery with their own hands usually make a second appearance of shirts. But such clothes are more expensive, given that it is handled by hand.

Where to get patterns for embroidery

So, if you want to create national clothes, then you need to prepare all the necessary components. To create embroideries with your own hands, you need to take patterns somewhere.

You can apply to a special store, where they sell ready-made schemes, in which all the colors are already indicated. We also need thread, canvas, all this is in a special set. To this set is attached a needle, with which you will do the work.

The second option - to buy a scheme on the fabric, painted with paints. These colors are washed off when washing. Threads in this case you have to purchase yourself.

The third option is modern. You can use a special program that will help you to convert any image into a scheme for embroidery. These are programs like Pattern Maker, and CrossStitchPro.

If you are seriously interested in embroideries with your own hands, then do not immediately follow complex schemes, but limit yourself to simple options that combine no more than seven or ten colors. It is important to choose the right needle, which will have a large eye and a blunt point. Do not forget to wash your hands before work, because dirt can remain on the threads.

A beginner embroiderer is better to take a lighter thread for work, there are not so noticeable mistakes. It is better to embroider smoothly. To get new ideas for creativity, you need to go to an exhibition of folk crafts or to a museum.

What is the combination of embroidery, how to select it

Vyshyvanka with own hands, the schemes of which you can buy in the hardware store, will perfectly suit for a variety of life events. It can be dressed for a holiday, you can put it on the office, at a business meeting. This shirt fits well with jeans.

Many wear embroidered clothes and under a jacket, and under a sports jacket. It turns out not bad, it's normal for the cold season.

If you are interested in how to properly choose such a piece of clothing, then you should definitely try it on before buying. Vyshyvanka should not fit the figure, and it should not be a loose hoodie. Bright and beautiful, on weekdays it will cheer up not only you, but others.

Purpose of embroidery

This clothing has deep historical roots, and its wearing means the person's belonging to a certain genus and a layer of society. Vyshyvanki make their own girls for their boys, their wives sew their husbands.

Often embroideries are worn at weddings, they are used for stage performances. Many people want to wear such clothes in the office and production, but then it needs to be adapted into a modern look.

You also need to be able to wear such clothes. As a rule, embroideries are not tied with a belt, they are not worn open. The real embroideries are restrained in color, they do not have bright colors. Such a shirt of Belarusian origin is usually burgundy, with blue or green patterns.

Vyshyvanka is considered a guardian, which protects its owner from bad influence. Especially if it is embroidered by hand. Often there were cases when vyshyvanka defended the one who wore it, from illnesses and wounds in the war.