{"id":2752,"date":"2026-06-02T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldkhataproject.com\/?post_type=product&p=2752"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:10:58","slug":"kvitky","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.oldkhataproject.com\/en\/product\/kvitky\/","title":{"rendered":"Kvitky. The Big Book of Traditional Ukrainian House Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authors of the concept and project leads: Svitlana Oslavska, Anna Ilchenko<\/span><\/p>\n

Design and layout: Halya Verheles<\/span><\/p>\n

Sketch and photo scanning: Oksana Hrushanska-Vlasova, Liudmyla Petrushko<\/span><\/p>\n

Literary editor (Ukrainian texts): Anastasiia Levkova<\/span><\/p>\n

English translation: Kate Tsurkan<\/span><\/p>\n

Proofreader: Yuliia Kolesnikova<\/span><\/p>\n

Prepress image preparation: Yana Staryk<\/span><\/p>\n

Printed by Publish Pro, Kyiv, Ukraine
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About the authors and the project<\/b><\/p>\n

Anna Ilchenko <\/b>is a Ukrainian documentary photographer, videographer, and documentary filmmaker. Her interests are focused on human stories and documentary way of telling them. Anna is a co-author of a documentary \u201cHomefront\u201d (Zeppers production, Amsterdam) about a large family that flees from the war, searching for home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Svitlana Oslavska<\/b> is a Ukrainian journalist, writer and culture researcher. She is the author of three books of literary reportage, and her texts have been featured in Ukrainian and international outlets, including Voxeurop, Coda, and TIME.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anna and Svitlana are sisters, who were born and raised in Sievierodonetsk, which is now occupied by Russia. Since 2020, they have been working together as a creative collective old khata project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Old khata project<\/strong> is a documentary collective that focuses on traditional culture, villages in Ukraine and produces video and photoprojects and publishes books. More about the collective <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>. Their first <\/span>book <\/span><\/a>is<\/span> Old Khata Book. A Photo Book about Houses and People<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>Kvitky. <\/span><\/i>Th<\/span><\/i>e Big Book of Traditional Ukrainian House Paintings <\/span><\/i>is their second book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This book presents the largest printed collection to date of materials on traditional Ukrainian house paintings from the first third of the 20th century. For the first time under one cover, it brings together copies of sketches and photographs of \u201cflowered\u201d houses from the historical Dnieper region of Ukraine, Slobozhanshchyna, Zaporizhzhia, the Black Sea region, and Podillia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fantastical flowers, whimsical scrolls, and delicate hop tendrils were created by women painters with no formal art education, but with deep knowledge of local artistic practices and a keen sense of harmony and taste. This art, in turn, was studied by people with a great passion for exploring Ukrainian culture. That is why the book keeps both those who created the paintings and those who researched them in focus. Excerpts from publications on house painting created a century ago are interwoven here with a visual narrative, placing this art in its historical context.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The edition is bilingual and includes English translations of key texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pages: 316\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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