Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geographyRudnytskyi, Stepan
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Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geography
Rudnytskyi, Stepan
Ukraine; Ukrainians
Cabinet-making, altho in general but slightly developed, still supplies the demand of the peasantry
and the common city-dwellers. Artistic cabinet-making is carried on in the Hutzul
country (Kossiv, Yavoriv, Richka, Viznitza), where, besides furniture, various kinds
of woodwork, [285]decorated with artistic carvings and with the beautifully conventionalized specifically
Hutzulian bead and brass-wire ornaments are produced, e.g., canes, boxes, picture-frames, etc. The furniture industry is common in the District
of Cherkassia (Kiev) and in the entire Poltava country. Here, too, beautiful and durable
wooden chests are made. Wooden spoons are produced in the districts of Poltava (Kalaidintzi),
Kiev (Chornobil, Hornostapol), in the Hutzul country (Porohy, Yavoriv), in the Rostoche
region (Yavoriv, Vishenka), and smoking-pipes of wood in the Poltava region (Velika
Pavlivka).
Cooperage and the making of wooden vessels is common everywhere, but it is most extensive in
the districts of Poltava (3,700 families), Kharkiv (Okhtirka, Kotelva), Polissye (Mosir),
Kiev (District of Radomishl), Chernihiv, Volhynia and the Hutzul country.
Wagon-making and the making of sleds and wooden agricultural implements has its chief center in
the Poltava country, where it occupies over 2400 families (Districts of Sinikiv, Lubni,
Hadyach). In the Kharkiv country this industry is important about Starobilsk, Bohodukhiv,
Isium, Kupiansk, as well. In Ardon (Government of Chernihiv) beautiful carriages are
produced and in Tarashcha (Government of Kiev) the world-renowned tarantas.
The shingle industry, charcoal-burning, pitch and potash-making are met with only
in the Carpathians and in the Polissye region. Yet, not so long ago, these comprised
one of the most important branches of industry of the forest-dwellers. Basket-weaving is especially developed in the Poltava region (about 1000 families, chiefly in the
Districts of Lokhvitzia and Kupiansk), to some degree also in Podolia (Districts of Litin and Vinitza), Kherson,
Kiev, Polissye about Mosir. Sieves are made everywhere the wood industry is established.
Bast shoes are made only in the Polissye region.
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