[HNW] Can anyone shed some light...

[Catherine Olanich Raymond]

On 12/21/2010 10:24 PM, vikingchyk at aol.com wrote:
> On a Ukranian embroidery stitch called "Nyzynka"?

Genie's e-mail gave some information.  Here's a few more snippets:

http://www.themadsamplar.com/Techniques_Ukrainian_Nyzynka.htm

The following forum claims that almost any book on Ukrainian embroidery 
will have instructions on how to work it, but if your friend wants to be 
able to document it to the 15th century, I suspect that won't be 
sufficient.

http://heritageshoppe.com/smf/index.php?topic=157.0


I'd suggest asking on the Slavic Interest Group list.



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