TODAY’S Google Doodle celebrates the International Vyshyvanka Day.
This is held on the third Thursday of May every year, but why do they celebrate embroidered shirts?
What is International Vyshyvanka Day?
Vyshyvanka – which means embroidered shirts in Ukrainian – honours the nation’s folk tradition for the clothing item on the third Thursday of May every year – with the date dropping on May 21 in 2020.
But these are no ordinary shirts, with over 250 distinct stitches used to denote various vyshyvanka coded symbols.
They often fall into floral ornamentation, zoomorphic figures and geometric shapes categories.
