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Ukrainian Women Pics Biography
(nee Kuts) was born into a Cossack family in Ukraine on January 19 1910; she died on November 11 1984 in Melbourne, Australia. Her father was an army officer; after WWI, during the short-lived Ukrainian People’s Republic, he served in the Ukrainian army.

Mariya Kuts, upon graduation from a high school in Lutsk, went to study at the University of Warsaw; in 1933 she dropped out after marrying Valerian Mykhailiv, an engineer.
During WWII, she found herself in Austria; later, she moved to Germany and from Germany, in 1949, she and her family travelled to Australia to settle down in Melbourne.

Her interest in the art of embroidery was aroused in her early years by her mother. In the early 1930s, she began collecting embroidery patterns, and she never stopped doing it even in the concentration camps of Austria and Germany where she met many Ukrainian women. When she had no opportunities for doing the needlework, she did her best to preserve, in whatever way it was possible, those patterns that she managed to obtain from the Ukrainian women, with whom she could come into contact, and who had some knowledge of Ukrainian embroidery and its patterns. She started doing embroideries at her first opportunity, using the threads of pastel colours as she preferred embroideries done in quiet and gentle tones. For a long time she refused to show her embroideries in public. Most of the patterns she used were based on those that were popular in the Lands of Poltavshchyna, Chernihivshchyna, Kyivshchyna and Podillya.

Mariya Kutsenko-Mykhailiv also had a talent of a writer and she published some of her essays and short stories.

In 1971, a book, Ukrayinski vyshyvky z kolektsiyi Mariyi Kutsenko (Ukrainian Embroideries from the Collection of Mariya Kutsenko), was published in Melbourne; this book continues to be a major source of patterns and styles of Ukrainian embroidery.(nee Kit) was born in the village of Dnistryk-Holovetsky in the Land of Lvivshchyna on August 16 1926. In 1942, she, together with many other young Ukrainians, was taken to Germany for forced labour. She was lucky to be given a job of a servant in the house of a rich and cultured Bavarian family; she had an opportunity to study embroidery and sewing, and use the German family’s large private library. After the war, Anna found herself in a camp for displaced persons where she met a man, Pylyp Kulchytsky, who became her husband. At the camp, Anna continued to do some embroidery and sewing. In the 1949, she and her husband moved to the USA, where they settled down in the State of New York. In 1953, the Kulchytskys moved to Chicago, where Anna set up a big shop for training young women in embroidery and sewing.

Ukrainian embroidery had a very special place in Anna’s heart. She kept searching in US libraries for any information about the art of embroidery in general and Ukrainian embroidery in particular. She collected a vast amount of materials which would be sufficient for a large doctoral thesis. In 1995, she published a book, Ornament Trypilskoyi kultury i Ukrayinska vyshyvka XX st (Ornaments of the Trypillya Culture and Ukrainian embroidery of the 20th century). In this book, the author proposes a theory that the Ukrainian embroidery of the twentieth century has many similarities to the ornament patterns used by the people of the several-thousand years old Trypillya Culture. Many of the symbols that can be seen on Trypillya Culture artefacts appear in the traditional Ukrainian folk art created many centuries later.
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