Rushnyk projects worldwide

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• Travelling shared rushnyk · 2024Rushnyk of Unity – Rushnyk of Victory: international launchEstonia — Tallinn

  Presentation of the collective 'Victory Rushnyk' at Oleviste Church on 1 Oct 2024, with panels sent from Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Germany, Poland, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Cyprus and Ukraine. The US ambassador George Kent spoke there.

  Tallinn Bible Church; Kirovohrad Regional Taxpayers Organization; NGO «Щаслива нація»; Association of Ukrainian Organizations in Estonia
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• Registered record · 2026Rushnyk of Unity – Rushnyk of Victory: Book of World Records certificateEstonia — Tallinn

  Certificate for the work with the largest number of embroiderers: 89 organizations from 11 European countries and Ukraine (as the registry's own report words it). Length and panel count are not in that report.

  Festival «Вишиванка об'єднує» IV; named: Andrii Yatsenko, Oksana Shoorlemmer, Liudmyla Shanska, Inna Hordiienko, Volodymyr Palamar
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• Registered record · 2014Kherson rushnyk (Ukrainian record, 2014)Ukraine — Kherson

  Schoolchildren-embroidered cloth of 700+ m recorded by the Book of Records of Ukraine; the government news page exists but is behind a bot check, so length and diploma number were not read from it.

  Kherson regional education department (led by Andrii Yatsenko)
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• A stop of the Rushnyk of Unity · 2025Unity Rushnyk flashmob in CyprusCyprus — Limassol (with Nicosia, Larnaca, Ayia Napa)

  4 Nov 2025: communities carried the travelling cloth (reported as 180 m) through Limassol. The report credits the idea to Kherson Rotarians Andrii Yatsenko and Viktoriia Bebko (2014).

  Ukrainian-Cypriot Friendship Society; Plast Cyprus; Obiimy Cyprus; Almazina Art centre
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• A stop of the Rushnyk of Unity · 2026World Vyshyvanka Day march with the Cloth of UnityAustria — Vienna

  21 May 2026 march Maria-Theresien-Platz → Michaelerplatz with a 165 m 'Cloth of Unity'. The press release states a plan to join it with the 700 m Kherson cloth and aim for a Guinness entry at 1 km — a stated goal only.

  Association of Ukrainian Organizations in Austria + 38 partner organizations
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• A stop of the Rushnyk of Unity · 2026Unity Rushnyk – Victory Rushnyk exhibition, KillarneyIreland — Killarney

  24 July 2026 showing at St Mary's Church; the paper puts the cloth at 166 m with an Irish panel combining guelder rose and clover.

  Future of Ukrainian Nation (FOUN Kerry)
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• A stop of the Rushnyk of Unity · 2026North American premiere at UA FESTCanada — Carleton Place, Ontario

  On 13 September 2026 the cloth was carried from the Roy Brown Statue into Riverside Park and shown at UA FEST; the Lanark County panel was stitched in open circles. Local press describes it as the first stop outside Europe.

  Ukrainian Community of Lanark County (UA FEST)
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• Travelling shared rushnyk · 2013International Rushnyk of Unity «Tsvit Vyshyvanky»Ukraine — Ternopil (travels)

  A single cloth that travels between diaspora communities, each adding its country's pattern: Canada, Poland, Germany, Italy, UK, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, USA, then Argentina (Prosvita, SUM) in 2026, next Brazil. Planned: 24 Ukrainian + 26 diaspora patterns.

  Museum of the National Liberation Struggle of Ternopil Region
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• Diaspora craft project · 2026Signs of Identity (block-printed rushnyky)Ukraine — Kyiv

  Ukrainians in 22 countries made rushnyky in the vybiika (block-print) technique; registration filled in eight days; final collection to be shown at the National Museum of Decorative Arts, with a tour planned.

  Curator Karina Haieva; Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine (per the broadcast)
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• Registered record · 2025Rushnyk of Unity of the Ukrainian community of HungaryHungary — BudapestSame or similar name, separate initiative

  9.5 m block-printed cloth made by Ukrainians, Hungarians and friends; presented 23 Sep 2025 and registered as a Ukrainian record. Same name, unrelated project.

  Ukrainian association «Єдність»; artist Khrystyna Blahodir; Embassy of Ukraine in Hungary
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• Registered record · 2025Rushnyk of Unity, Kalush College of CultureUkraine — Kalush / Ivano-FrankivskSame or similar name, separate initiative

  About 350 students and teachers embroidered an 11.79 m cloth with ornaments from all of Ukraine over six months; shown in Ivano-Frankivsk in May 2025. Same name, unrelated project.

  Kalush Professional College of Culture and Arts
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• Registered record · 2024Ukraine in the Palms — Rushnyk of Unity, IrpinUkraine — IrpinSame or similar name, separate initiative

  27.41 m × 1.5 m cloth with the emblems of all regions, registered 13 July 2024; honoured children killed in the invasion.

  Charitable foundation «For Ukrainians»; Irpin City Council
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• Registered record · 2026Rushnyk of Unity with 2,290 textile varenykyUkraine — DniproSame or similar name, separate initiative

  National record set on 24 Aug 2026: an embroidered cloth carrying 2,290 handmade textile varenyky and Dnipro-region ornaments.

  Women's community «Мальва»
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• Travelling shared rushnyk · 2007Rushnyk of National UnityUkraine — Kyiv (travelling)

  9 m cloth embroidered by about 1,500 people in 48 sessions in 2007–08, six of them in diaspora communities (Poland, USA, Canada, Moldova); presented at Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in 2019 before a tour of the regions.

  Ministry of Culture of Ukraine with several churches and the Spiritual Administration of Crimean Muslims
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• Travelling shared rushnyk · 2024Victory Rushnyk — the Nation's Value CompassUkraine — Lviv (to travel abroad)Same or similar name, separate initiative

  3 Sep 2024: women stitched an yevshan flower at St George's Cathedral; the cloth was to travel to other cities and abroad. Near-identical name, separate project — the main naming collision.

  International Institute of Inclusion; Ukrainian Women's Congress; Club of Successful Women
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• Memory project · 2025Rushnyk of HopeUkraine · United States · Canada · Germany — Kyiv; exhibition in Lviv

  From July 2025, families of POWs and missing persons embroidered rushnyky in 46 centres, five of them abroad (USA, Canada, Germany); 44 cloths shown at ZAG gallery, Lviv, March 2026.

  Solomiia Lukovetska; NGO «Жінки роду» (Iryna Taranova)
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• Diaspora craft project · 2026Victory StitchesGermany — Münster

  21 Ukrainian women aged 9–66 embroidered a nearly 4 m protective rushnyk with a diamond-pattern flag, presented on Independence Day (24 Aug).

  Halyna Kalyniuk
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• Memory project · 2025Rushnyk of Memory, LiubeshivUkraine — Liubeshiv, Volyn

  16 m cloth embroidered by relatives with the names of 118 fallen defenders; presented 1 Oct 2025.

  Liubeshiv community; families of fallen defenders
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• Memory projectRushnyk of Memory, VolodymyrUkraine — Volodymyr, Volyn

  Patriotic project presented by the city: a memory cloth with names of fallen soldiers. Page not opened; details unverified.

  Volodymyr city council (per its news page)
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• Community rushnyk · 2026Threads of Unity, BoryslavUkraine — Boryslav

  Community rushnyk mapping each settlement's ornaments, made on World Vyshyvanka Day and presented 21 May 2026 at the local museum.

  Boryslav city council culture department
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• Registered record · 2025Rushnyk of 1,470 Easter breadsUkraine — Chernihiv

  13.8 × 2.1 m 'embroidered' rushnyk laid out of paska breads, recorded 13 Apr 2025; breads went to mothers of fallen soldiers and the front.

  Chernihiv Bakery No. 2
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• Memory project · 2023Embroidered with PainUkraine · United States — Kharkiv, Dnipro, Sumy, Odesa, Chernihiv; Scottsdale AZ; Milwaukee WI

  Rushnyk-style cloths encode testimonies of survivors of wartime sexual violence; shown at railway stations in 2023, then in the US (Marquette University, Jan–Feb 2026).

  One Health (Mental Health for Ukraine), with Ukraine's Ministry of Health
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• Exhibition · 2025Rushnyky: Sacred Ukrainian Textiles (Glencairn)United States — Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania

  Exhibition 5 Apr – 9 Nov 2025 on rushnyky in birth, wedding and funeral rites, the tree of life motif, convent-made pieces.

  Glencairn Museum; curator Franklin Sciacca; loans from the Icon Museum and local Ukrainians
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• Exhibition · 2018Rushnyk: Sacred Ukrainian Textiles (Icon Museum)United States — Clinton, Massachusetts

  Over 80 rushnyky from the curator's collection shown 15 Feb – 3 Jun 2018 with icons; interpretive text on rushnyky as a bridge between secular and divine.

  The Icon Museum and Study Center; curator Franklin Sciacca
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• Museum collectionThe Ukrainian Museum (New York)United States — New York

  Folk art collection of 8,000+ objects including rushnyky; only a small part is online, research viewing by request.

  The Ukrainian Museum
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• Museum collection · 1936Ukrainian Museum of CanadaCanada — Saskatoon (branches in Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver)

  Canada's first Ukrainian museum; described as holding one of North America's largest Ukrainian textile collections, including rushnyky.

  Ukrainian Museum of Canada
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• Museum collection · 1944Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational CentreCanada — Winnipeg

  Museum, gallery, library and archives with embroidered textiles and folk art; rushnyky not named explicitly in the sources read.

  Oseredok
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• Museum collectionSt. Volodymyr Museum — immigrant rushnykCanada — Winnipeg

  Hemp rushnyk from Kuzivka brought by early immigrants, catalogued in 'A Museum Called Manitoba' with its cradle-to-grave story.

  Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg
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• Museum collectionUkrainian National Museum of ChicagoUnited States — Chicago

  Collection includes wedding attire, rushnyky and kylyms (per search listing).

  Ukrainian National Museum
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• Museum collection · 1993National Centre of Folk Culture «Ivan Honchar Museum»Ukraine — Kyiv

  30,000+ items; about 1,000 embroidered and woven rushnyky are among its largest groups; online collection pages exist.

  Ivan Honchar Museum
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• Heritage status · 2026UNESCO ICH elements of UkraineUkraine

  Inscribed: Petrykivka (2013), Cossack songs of Dnipropetrovsk (2016), Kosiv ceramics (2019), Ornek (2021), borscht (2022), pysanka and kobza/lyre (2024). No rushnyk or embroidery element is inscribed.

  UNESCO
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• Heritage status · 2026«Vyshyvanka in Ukraine: A Socio-Cultural Tradition» — UNESCO nominationUkraine

  Dossier submitted in May 2026 for the Representative List; under review, not inscribed.

  Ministry of Culture of Ukraine; Permanent Mission to UNESCO
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• Heritage status · 2018Krolevets overshot weaving (Krolevets rushnyky)Ukraine — Krolevets, Sumy region

  In Ukraine's National List of ICH (Ministry order No. 105, 12 Feb 2018) and a Ukrainian geographical indication. Not on any UNESCO list; a UNESCO nomination was reportedly prepared in 2020.

  Krolevets masters; National Union of Masters of Folk Art (Sumy branch)
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• Heritage status · 2023Obukhiv «stitched» rushnykUkraine — Obukhiv, Kyiv region

  Tradition and technique added to the National List of ICH (reported Dec 2023).

  Ministry of Culture and Information Policy
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• Heritage statusReshetylivka white-on-white embroideryUkraine — Reshetylivka, Poltava region

  White-on-white embroidery combining 5–7 techniques; on the National List of ICH.

  Ministry of Culture
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• Education and debate · 2023Vyshyvanka: Embroidered Activism (Europa Nostra Heritage Hub)Poland — Kraków

  Panel on embroidery as heritage and resistance (5 Dec 2023); notes World Vyshyvanka Day received a 2022 European Heritage Award.

  Europa Nostra Heritage Hub Kraków
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• Diaspora craft projectSpil'no embroidery masterclass (Association of Ukrainians in Victoria)Australia — Melbourne

  Event listing for an embroidery masterclass; no collective rushnyk found for Australia.

  Association of Ukrainians in Victoria
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• Records registryBook of World Records (Ukraine-based registry)Ukraine — Kyiv

  Registry that certified the Tallinn 2026 record and several rushnyk records (Irpin, Budapest, Chernihiv). Separate from Guinness World Records.

  Private registry (CEO Hanna Krysiuk)
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• Records registryBook of Records of UkraineUkraine

  Registry that issued the 2014 Kherson rushnyk diploma (per project documents and the government news page).

  National registry
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