Monthly Archives - July 2015

Baba Maria’s Towel

This richly embroidered towel (rushnyk) was embroidered by my father's mother, Maria. The family lived in the Ternopil region of Ukraine, and my father remembered his mother embroidering especially during the winter months. When my father's youngest sister, Lida, visited us in the mid 1980's she brought this rushnyk...

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