What symbols and names are encoded in embroidered patterns

As I sat in quarantine, I remembered my longtime fascination. cross-stitch. Handicraft is the most beautiful occupation for calming nerves and finding inner harmony! The importance of embroidery for the decor of clothes and home decoration is difficult to overestimate.

My grandmother taught me how to embroide. I remember when I was a child, I admired her embroidered shirts, towels and even an icon. Such power and love conveyed the embroidered image that was breathtaking! And now, after years, I found it in the closet. embroidery I can't look at him.

I look at my grandmother’s embroidery and realize that it was not for nothing that she gave it to me. My name is coded here too!



The importance of embroidery today editorial "Site" Tell us which symbols and names are encoded in embroidered. Everyone will find their own!

Did you know that everyone ornament Does it matter? By studying folk art in different regions of the post-Soviet space, especially in Ukraine (as embroidery is especially popular there), scientists have established certain patterns in ornaments that prompted them to identify coded information in them.



In ancient times, our ancestors had a magical connection with the natural world: plants, animals and celestial bodies. Symbols of the Sun, the Earth, the Universe, the Rod, they painted their fate, reproducing it on canvas, writing out mysterious ancient signs as a spell, as amulets, as codes of a kind. That is why they decorated their products with simple ornaments.

In fact, embroidery can be read like a book. Each letter is an embroidered symbol, each symbol is a powerful amulet. The alphabet of embroidery and its interpretation was told in his book by Vladimir Pidgirnyak, a researcher of Ukrainian pysanka and embroidery.





I suggest you look at a small list of names. embroidered. You may be lucky to find the names of your family.

Names encoded in embroidery







Every letter is an embroidered symbol, every symbol is a powerful amulet!









And here is a small selection of schemes for embroidery. Relevant and useful for those who like to devote their free time to this beautiful type of needlework.





Beginners are the easiest to do embroidery on a linen or standard canvas. That is, on those materials where it is easy to calculate the distance between the elements.







I am looking forward to doing something like this on my new blouse!







Editorial Board I also suggest to get acquainted with the selection of ideas of embroidery on things from denim. Embroidery on denim fabric looks beautiful, exquisite and feminine, besides this element of decor will never go out of fashion!





The value of embroidery is great if you understand this. Both for the cultural heritage of the people and for each individual individual. Embroidered products are valuable not only for their beauty and authenticity, they carry the power of the talisman of the family.

As you now know, the signs we see on embroidery are not just circles, diamonds, branches and spirals. These are figures that were created decades ago as unique symbols.

Choose the right schemes, give free rein to imagination, experiment with the choice of color and embroidery for your pleasure!

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