Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Art, Easter, Marusya, Ukrainian
ukrainian easter eggs

First pub­lished 3/28/2014  East­er is just around the cor­ner! This is the time of year when you will find most Ukraini­ans hunched over their fresh eggs, wax, can­dles, kistkas, and dyes mak­ing their intri­cate East­er eggs. Ukraini­ans call these eggs Pysanky. Cre­at­ing these lit­tle works of art requires a lot of time and PATIENCE. Not only are there mul­ti­ple steps to be tak­en for each egg, but you can’t erase...

Dreaming Florals: Past, Present & Future
Bride, Bridesmaid, Couture Sewing, customer, Dress, Dresses, Ethnic, Floral, for sale, Marusya, Rehearsal Dress, Silk, Wedding, Womenswear, Wool
floral silk dress woman

Pub­lished 2/12/2014 I admit I am slight­ly obsessed with flo­ral prints. This may seem strange, since I rarely wear prints or colors. If you were to peek into my clos­et, you’d find neu­tral cloth­ing with small splash­es of col­or­ful flo­ral print­ed gar­ments! You might think­ing to your­self, “How come she wears col­or­ful flo­ral prints and not wear oth­er prints or sol­id col­ors?” Well, I think it’s because of my Ukrain­ian mother! I...

Ukrainian Embroidered Dress
Atelier, Bergdorf Goodman, Couture Sewing, Dress, Dresses, Embroidery, Ethnic, Marusya, Ukrainian, Ukrainian Embroidery, Vyshyvanka

Ukrainian Hand Embroidered Dress in Honor of My Babcha  My Babcha was a spe­cial woman. Her sto­ry is quite remark­able and the lessons she taught me were even more so.  I only hope to be as strong as her and pass on her spir­it to others. Aside from her wis­dom, her love of sewing was passed on to me. My babcha was an incred­i­ble seam­stress! She was self taught and...

Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
Blouse, childrenswear, customer, Dress, Dresses, Easter, Embroidery, Ethnic, Floral, for sale, Linen, Piccolas, Piccolas Collection, Sustainable Fashion, Ukrainian, Vyshyvanka, Womenswear
Ukrainian embroidered linen dresses

Hand Embroidered Ukrainian Shirts and Dresses Pub­lished 20/23/2018 Here are just a few absolute­ly stun­ning pho­tos of my sis­ter’s fam­i­ly photoshoot. Each piece was embroi­dered by my mom. My grand­moth­er sewed the adult vyshy­van­ka dress around 35 years ago and I sewed the girls’ vyshy­van­ka dress­es and the baby’s bap­tismal gown, which my sis­ter stuffed in his pants. The pho­tos were tak­en by Indi­ana pho­tog­ra­ph­er Adi­na Brown-Sel­ner. Her pho­tog­ra­phy busi­ness is called...

Ukrainian Embroidered Blouse Plaid Dress
Bergdorf Goodman, childrenswear, Coat, Dress, Dresses, Embroidery, Ethnic, Piccolas Collection, Plaid, Ukrainian
Ukrainian Embroidered Girls Blouse

Pic­co­las Col­lec­tion Shop Chil­drenswear Fall Clothing We saved the best gar­ment for last. The final piece of the 2018 Pic­coalas fall col­lec­tion is the hand embroi­dered blouse/vyshyvanka. It is a white linen bohemi­an style blouse with black and navy authen­tic Ukrain­ian embroi­dery. The blouse can be pur­chased on the web­site here: Ukrain­ian embroi­dered blouse Cus­tomers can cus­tomize the col­ors and embroi­dery design. Please email Mary Grace if you are inter­est­ed in...