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Vyshyvanka patterns: white drawn-thread, black-and-red geometry, near-black sleeve

Vyshyvanka — Stepped diamonds, hooked crosses and eight-pointed stars in dense counted stitch arranged in vertical columns down a sleeve, black outlining every shape and red filling it, no bare linen left inside the band., counted cross and flat stitch in wool and cotton on hand-woven linen

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Reading 1Counted geometry
Reading 2White on white
Reading 3Oak and berries

The Ukrainian embroidered shirt carries its region on the sleeve: white-on-white drawn-thread work in one district, dense black-and-red counted geometry in another, near-black sleeves in a third — set at the shoulder, the sleeve band and the cuff. These nine render all three regional grammars, each at those three placements. Ask for a different regional grammar and the same three placements carry it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each pattern is drawn at A3 proportions with an even margin, so it prints clean at A3 or scales to A4.
Can I ask for a different regional grammar?
Yes — the direction field takes a different region's counted or drawn-thread grammar and the same three placements render it.
What's the difference between shoulder, band and cuff placement?
Shoulder carries the widest field of the pattern; sleeve band narrows it to a repeating strip; cuff compresses the same grammar into its smallest, densest reading.
Is this respectful of real Ukrainian vyshyvanka traditions?
The set draws on the drawn-thread and counted-geometry embroidery grammars of Ukraine's regional vyshyvanka traditions as a style reference for a generated pattern, not a reproduction of any specific embroiderer's shirt.

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This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.