Famous Wedding towels (towels) will certainly attend all weddings in various regions of Ukraine.Weddings here are loud and involve a variety of events: matchmaking, bride, parents blessing, painted in the registry office, wedding, meeting a new family with bread and salt, noisy feast with dancing, games and songs.For a wedding, they prepare a lot of towels, each towel is present Ukrainian ornament.
Towels at Ukrainian wedding
the wedding to prepare in advance a lot of embroidered towels, in some regions, up to forty pieces.This is one of the main attributes in the Ukrainian wedding:
- under the feet of the young (this is the most important in the towel every wedding).
- Under loaf (often met him young, and then this towel emblazoned on the holiday table for the young wedding bread).
- two towels on the icon, the two - for the blessing of the parents of a young couple in the new marriage.These towels can be taken to the church for the wedding, but they do not leave the church.To prepare a separate version of the church, as a gift from a young couple, but not necessarily.
Total necessary to prepare five different options still need to add a towel, which tie up the hands of the young, and towels that young wife gives to parents, godparents, all can count on the Ukrainian wedding up to 20-30 pieces.
Ukrainian ornament and a guarantee of family happiness
chief towel, which will guarantee a happy family life - is one in which the couple will be during the wedding.In the Kiev area woman embroidering his own, to show someone his work was considered a bad omen.In some regions, the towel embroiders godmother.The fact that the fabric must be an integer and white, already well known.White - a symbol of a long and happy journey, and the web in any case can not be connected to the two pieces of fabric.
size towel should be proportional figure that you have chosen.That is, if the towel divided into three parts, the two parts - a stitch on the left and right hand, while the central part remains clean.This place that are young.Now the drawing itself.Each region has its own inherent Ukrainian ornament and embroidery machines.This is mainly geometric patterns or patterns of plant type: beaters, the tree of life.The Tree of Life previously embroidered with symbols of a kind.
Rule embroidery towel
main fabric for the main charge linen towel, its width 45 cm, but the length can be different.Apply thread in two colors: red and black, they have to be silk or wool.Starting to embroider Ukrainian ornament should always be on Thursday, before it should pray.Cursing and hold a negative thought while embroidery is impossible.Embroider towel for wedding very carefully, is strictly forbidden at the wedding towel to do from the inside components.
In Ukraine, it is believed that if the front side facing the people, then purl - to God.The first shows that we are doing exactly, and the second - what we really think.Therefore, if the reverse side towel unkempt, the whole life in marriage is just for show.The first right hand embroidered towel, and then left.The right side - for the groom, and ornament on both sides rushnyk always different.
How to choose a pattern?
Not necessarily attached to the ornament, made a cross in the Ukrainian embroidery technique of more than twenty options.Many copies of the embroidery stitch, you can embroider simple seams.
must choose the motif of the ornament, which is more like (roses, daisies, viburnum, or something else).This embroidery (Ukrainian ornament) scheme are as follows:
- lower part of ornament - it seemed a little "Berezhok."
- main part - a wreath, tree of life, or the basic pattern.
- so-called raskidka not required.
- «Wave" - a thin strip of ornamentation, combining both edges (not always the same).
embroider need only those characters that bring happiness and love, well-being and prosperity, which are liking, and in any case does not rip or cross out ornament new values.Fix anything.
figures geometric ornament was used mainly in the towel under loaf.If you decide to make Ukrainian ornament (cross diagram drawing can be any), try not to close the rectangular motifs in stroke and do not abuse the horizontal lines separating one from another pattern.When a pattern is selected, and you think that all is well and everything is taken into account, do not rush immediately begin to embroider, better consult with experts.This article gives a few options schemes for towel.If desired, remove the ornament on the cell.
Now that everything is determined and taken into account, you can begin to embroider, thinking about his favorite and a happy life.So the wedding towel - this is a very individual thing.And you need to treat it with respect.Be happy!
