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Hutsul Ornament: Woodworking Mastery

Hutsul Ornament: Woodworking Mastery

1988, 9 min

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1988.

The film "Hutsul Ornament of the 19th Century" is dedicated to the Hutsul woodcarving mastery.

Filming was carried out at the Lviv Museum of Ethnography and Crafts, the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of the Ukrainian SSR (now the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life "Shevchenko Grove").

On the video: examples of Hutsul ornament on wooden products, comments from researchers. Behind the scenes, the sound of the drymba, cymbals, and a trio ensemble of musicians.

Art historians and ethnologists Lyudmila Lysenko, Inna Shcherbak, and Vasyl Skurativsky tell the story.