Towel. With it man lives from the beginning to the end of his life.

Towels are also decorated with images. These towels are made in advance with the best fabrics and embroidered mandatory. Pattern and color of embroidery should match its very purpose.

Wedding Wedding embroidered towel .For several of them: for blessings for matchmakers for the wedding.

The main is the towel on which there are young people during the blessing. This towel is the richest in the pattern. It is embroidered only at home and no one has the right to see it, except the family to complete the work.

Symbolism wedding towel.

All words encoded in symbols patterns. And from that because the towel sewn may depend on the future of the newlyweds.

Kalina – a tree Ukrainian family. It is associated with the birth of the universe, and red berries Viburnum became a symbol of the blood and undying Ukrainian nation. Because of this wedding towels, shirts hen and stag richly decorated this embroidery.

Oak – a tree that symbolizes virility. In ancient times – a symbol of the god Perun. His embroidered on the men’s side of the wedding towels, and more – on stag shirts to boys and young men were carrying a male guardian life-giving force. For women, these patterns are not appropriate.

Oak and viburnum often found in traditional embroidery, combining symbols of eternal beauty and strength simultaneously.

Grapes – a symbol of the sacrament of creation of a new family. The embroidery on towels family. Vine vitality means fertility kind.

Poppy – Flower memory type. They believed that after the battle field in spring covered with poppies. It is not portrayed on wedding towel because it represents grief.

Lily – a symbol of girlish charms, purity and virginity. It contains in its leaves and buds ornament, this laid the birth, development and continuity of life.

Rose or Ruzha – Ukrainian favorite flower. Her embroidered shirts and towels in many regions of Ukraine. Some believe the motive roses are not very old, and some researchers even claim that this image was borrowed.

Hops – embodies the essence of riot and young love. Patterns that resemble leaves hop belongs to the youth and wedding symbols. After all, the guy at the girls’ winds as hops. ”

Marigold – poetic image of folk songs and embroidery. Because these flowers beloved by the Ukrainian people, they often embroidered on towels and shirts.

Pattern with flowers is usually embedded on the laws of floral ornament with continuous movement. Flowers connected chain-like stalks evidence nevpynnosti being.

Bereginya – mysterious, powerful diverse flower that holds a maternal force in the world. It’s mother nature, embodied in a plant that carries the kind of family all living things. It means the essence of the creation, renewal and eternal harmony of life.

Sun – a powerful sacred symbol. Represents the fiery energy of the parent, and for the ancestors – a sign of the sacred fire. The sun depicted in the form of eight-pointed star or sockets that in itself provides a huge energy boost as well as swastikas, diamond with beams cross in a circle.

Water – the second element, formed earthly life. Embodies moisture maternal energy. Water Star resembles rolled snake or a wavy line.

Earth – a symbol of fertility, the land sown generously shown in a diamond.

These signs have come down to us from the deep past – the sun, water and earth – are life-giving Trinity. They are indivisible Ukrainian embroidery ornaments.

Star – the symbol of the structure of space. In embroidery are not scattered randomly, and collected in an orderly geometric pattern and harmony as the universe. Again this pattern richly decorated with embroidery seed that will sprout and more.

Cross – Leading magic mark. There are ancient solar symbol combined parent and parent damp energy. Cross blesses the young to create a new family, so it is embroidered on the towels wedding, often intertwine in a different pattern, making imperceptible.

Crown, crown or ring – with direct symbolism. Embroidering wedding rings with a towel, it is important to remember that they should not be completely closed.

Nightingale and cuckoo – girls’ embroidered on towels. Often they put on viburnum branches, symbolizing procreation.

At the wedding embroidered towels pair of doves as a symbol of love and harmony, roosters as the beginning of a new day, a new life swans a sign of loyalty to each other.

Peacock – fire-bird that carries the solar energy. This venerable bird symbolizes marital happiness and prosperity.

Swallow – a bird that is good news, a sign of spring and the beginning of a new life. Falcons, pigeons, roosters – all symbols of the newlyweds.

Fresh location of birds in folk art embodies love and loyalty. You can not sew on a towel birds are not a couple.

Place the bird heads together. Sometimes they hold in klyuvykah branch or berry viburnum.

Eagle – images of the ancient ruler of the upper world. The double-headed eagle identical mythological image – cosmological character, who was considered the creator of the earth, trees, people.

Helen – ancient powerful image that brings happiness and prosperity. In more modern embroideries almost never.

So creating its own fate hands! Embroiders and be happy!