Svitlana Bondar
Motanka dolls · knitting · embroidery
Yarmolyntsi village
Head of the Yarmolyntsi village club and a repeated competition winner. Crocheted and knitted fairy-tale characters, sewn dolls, cross-stitch and satin-stitch rushnyky decorate the…
Nadiia Volosenko
Cross-stitch and satin-stitch embroidery
Korzhi village
Born in 1946 in Lypova Dolyna. She learned embroidery as a girl from a neighbour — and what she imagined began to come alive on canvas: cities, bouquets, landscapes, sky blue. Her body of…
Ivan Kasianenko
Willow weaving
Kalynivka village
Born in 1955 in Mali Budky. At thirty he became fascinated by willow work he saw at a master's in a neighbouring village — and has been weaving ever since. In winter he goes to the…
Valentyna Kosushko
Embroidery · beadwork
Korzhi village
Born in 1949 in Korzhi. After the Kharkiv Machine-Building College she spent 25 years at the Polihrafmash plant, combining work with her beloved craft. Her mother passed on the love of…
Valentyna Krupska
Cross-stitch embroidery
Romny city territorial hromada
She has devoted her life to cross-stitch — a craft that has kept its appeal for centuries. Her pictures are delicate, beautiful and refined: they radiate warmth and kindness, seem alive,…
Inna Mykhailova
Beeswax candles and compositions
Rohyntsi village
She took up craft work at the Rohyntsi village club: founded a hobby group, worked with children, and later began composing her own pieces. Since the first days of the full-scale invasion…
Lidiia Pekker
Decorative painting
Kalynivka village
Born in 1953 in Kalynivka. Drawing drew her in from childhood: she took part in school and college competitions. Her skilled hands produce painted plates, which she gladly gives to family…
Maiia Fedenko
Embroidery · crystal mosaic
Romny
Born and raised in Romny. She spent 42 years at the curtain and tulle factory as head of the finished-goods warehouse. Even in retirement she remains active in public life: she heads the…
Viktor Shevchenko
Painting · icon painting
Korzhi village
Born in 1946 into the family of a decorative painter. He began drawing in second grade, following his father. One of his first paintings, "Chornomortsi", dates to 1966; after army…
Nataliia Shevchun
Beadwork
Perekopivka village
Her childhood and youth passed in a creative atmosphere: drawing, singing, dancing, piano. One day she "met beads" — first simple bracelets and flowers, then it became hard to…
Oleksandr Matviienko
Marquetry — wood inlay
Romny
Marquetry is a form of wood inlay: veneer sheets 0.5–1 mm thick are fitted together into a picture and glued onto a flat base. The master works with exotic species — American walnut root,…
Olha Chepizhna
Knitted toys
Romny city territorial hromada
"I am a toy maker. My tools are needles and yarn," she says of herself. She has practised this craft for over fourteen years, creating countless soft toys in which their owners…
Bee Taia
Home-made honey and beeswax candles
A family apiary whose honey reaches the table exactly as it left the hive: the hand-written labels say what it stood on — heather, mint, thyme. From the wax left after the harvest Taia…
