…Then they formed something like dough, and fried pancakes using this dough. Bread Hungry Ukrainians made something like bread using a chopped straw. The “dough” also included millet and buckwheat chaff (dry, scaly protective casing of cereal grains or seeds). The “flour” was made using tree bark pounded in a mortar and potato husks. Ukrainians tried to mix all these…
Embroidered pride: highlights from Vyshyvanka Day celebrations
…of culture and made an impressive procession in national costumes. An exhibition of Ukrainian folk embroidery also accompanied the flash mob with a parade of vyshyvankas. Thus, the holiday passed in the spirit of national self-consciousness, patriotism, and memory of roots through the prism of Ukrainian national clothes. 2020 year, Kyiv. A few months after the start of the global…