Західноукраїнські та литовські покривала: паралелі етномистецької традиції декору

ENIntroduction. The folk Western Ukrainian and Lithuanian bedspreads are studied based on the results of Ukrainian and Lithuanian interdisciplinary r&d project «Ornamentation of West Ukrainian and Lithuanian Folk Textile: Universal and Unique Parameters» in the paper. The lack of comparative analysis the most noticeable decor features of Western Ukrainian and Lithuanian woven items, in particular the bedspreads, has defined the study relevance and novelty. This paper purpose consists in identifying technical parameters, artistic and stylistic features of ethno-artistic traditions of Western Ukrainian and Lithuanian bedspreads’ decor. Tradition bedspread of Western Ukraine and Lithuania are the study object and the subject is the common and distinctive features of their decor. Comparative-historical method and art analysis are methodological basis of the work. They have permitted to reveal the characteristic features woven bedspreads of Ukrainian and Lithuanian studied territories at the end of the 19th — the first half of the 20th centuries. There were three kinds of sources using in the research: scientific publication of Ukrainian and Lithuanian scholars in the field of traditional weaving; the items from studied museum collections at Lviv, Kolomyia, Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Krylos, Radyvyliv, Lutsk, Vilnius, Kaunas, Rumsiskės, Kretinga, Klaipėda; materials of long-term field authors’ researches in Ukraine and Lithuania. Results. Ukrainian and Lithuanian different kinds of bed spreads as well as their regional and local originality of their structure, texture, motifs, ornament, variability of composition schemes and color palette are characterized in the paper. Unique and universal features of Ukrainian items' ornamentation from different historical and ethnographic regions of Western Ukraine and similar items from Lithuania are noted.Western Ukrainian and Lithuanian bedspreads’ studying has testified the existence in these areas of numerous types of woven fabrics and their local variants. Comparative art analysis of Ukrainian and Lithuanian items’ decor has helped identify a number of common and distinctive artistic features, ethnic indication of originality and local identity. They are a significant component of the national artistic heritage of Ukraine and Lithuania. Keywords: Western Ukraine, Lithuania, weaving, bed spread, ornament, composition, coloring.

• Audiniai kaimo kultūroje: lietuvių geometriniai raštai XIX-XX amžiuje. Vilnius : Alma littera, 1998. 245 p.
• Comparable analysis of the ornamentation of folk bedspreads of the Western part of Ukraine and Lithuania. Fibres & textiles in Eastern Europe. 2024, 32, 2, p. 41-50.
• Ornamentation of Lithuanian ethnographic home textiles. Fibres & textiles in Eastern Europe. 2016, 24, 2, p. 26-38.