• The beauty and greatness of Ukraine. Ivano-Frankivsk region

    Ukraine  2020.12.04

    In issue: Souvenir sheet(s): 1   

    Printing: multicoloral offset

    Printable Version

  • Perforation: Harrow   Perforation type: 11 ¾x11 ¾

    Subject:

    The souvenir sheet includes 4 stamps, united by a common design with sheet fields.

    The issue features iconic traditional and architectural motifs, one of which is ceramics.

    So the right margin of the sheet is decorated with a collage of samples of ceramic tiles (presumably fireplace and stove), from the National Museum of Folk Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokutya named after Yosaphat Kobrin*. One of the tiles symbolically shows the process of grain processing in a mill with two water wheels (see fragment).

    Additional:

    * The museum was founded in 1926 and is located in the central part of the city of Kolomyia, in the former People's House, built at the expense of the Ukrainian society.

    Collector's collections number about 50,000 exhibits and represent all types of traditional folk art of the Hutsuls and Pokutyans, from the 17th century to the present.

    The following types of folk art are presented in the museum: artistic woodworking (carving, inlay, burning), artistic metal and leather processing, pottery, decorative weaving, carpet making, embroidery and clothing.

    Size (of sheet, booklet) mm: 120x92

    Topics: Mills in Art Stylized mills Various Watermills