On International Museum Day, May 18, the Historical Museum of the Reserve hosted the exhibition “Spinning – a folk craft with a centuries-old history”.

The exhibition featured items from the Reserve’s collection: tools used to produce threads for woven products, including spinning wheels, combs, spindles, brushes for combing out the skeins before spinning, and samples of yarn and threads. The collection includes over seventy such items.

In Ukraine, flax and hemp were traditionally used to make canvases, and wool was used for warm clothes. The exhibition featured towels, tablecloths, ryadna, homespun shirts, and woolen retinue. All these products were skillfully made by the skilled hands of local craftsmen in the late 19th – first half of the 20th century.

The author of the exhibition is Lyudmila Kochegura, the chief custodian of the funds.