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Ukrainian Women Photos Biography
was born in the village of Pidzakharychi in the Land of Bukovyna on April 5 1916, and died in Vienna in February 2007. Her talent for needlework revealed itself early in her life. Many years later she said in her reminiscences, “I loved best the Hutsul embroidery and traditional Hutsul dresses which were wonderfully decorated with furs and with embroideries in many colours.”

In the 1920s, when she studied at a high school in Chernivtsi, Xenia met Olga Kobylyanska (1863–1942, prominent Ukrainian author), who admired young Xenia’s embroideries done in various styles and with the use of many techniques. Xenia remembered well what the writer told her, “Keep on working on your embroideries — it is a sure way of maintaining the age-old traditions of Ukrainian culture, which are expressed best in such things as the traditional dress and embroidery.”

In the 1930s, she and her husband, Vasyl Kolotylo, moved to Austria where she put her collection of over 600 patterns of Ukrainian embroidery on display in her house, turning it into a sort of a Ukrainian embroidery museum. Tragically, she lost her sight and in her later years she could not enjoy the beauty of the displayed embroideries herself.

“There were three things that guided me in my work — firstly, the desire to make folk art of Ukraine known better in the world; secondly, to train disciples who would maintain the traditions of embroidery after I am gone, and thirdly, to collect embroidery patterns from the Carpathians and publish them in a book,” wrote Xenia Kolotylo in her memoirs.

Exhibitions of her works were held in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and other countries of the world; Austrians of Ukrainian descent, Anita Rosner and Ramtsya Flig keep doing embroideries in the traditional Ukrainian styles; two books of embroidery patterns from the Land of Bukovyna were published in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Women Photos
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Ukrainian Women Photos
Ukrainian Women Photos
Ukrainian Women Photos
Ukrainian Women Photos
Ukrainian Women Photos
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