Ukraine

Ukraine carries egg decoration, wall painting, Cossack song and borscht cooking.

Crafts Music & dance Food & cooking Spirituality & rites Textile & dress

Knowledge in this place

Petrykivka painting

Petrykivka painting

Ornamental floral folk painting, inscribed on the UNESCO list.

Cossack songs of Dnipropetrovsk

Cossack songs of Dnipropetrovsk

Polyphonic songs of the region, inscribed on the UNESCO urgent-safeguarding list.

Ukrainian borscht

Ukrainian borscht

The culture of cooking beetroot borscht, inscribed on the UNESCO urgent list.

Pysanka egg writing

Pysanka egg writing

Wax-resist dyed Easter eggs covered in symbolic geometric motifs.

Spirituality & rites

Vyshyvanka embroidery

Vyshyvanka embroidery

Cross-stitch embroidered shirts with region-specific colours and patterns.

Textile & dress