Reshetylivka carpet weaving

Description

This coin celebrates the Reshetylivka carpet-making style – Ukrainian heritage from Poltava oblast. The Reshetylivka carpet-making style is characterized by special stylized floral motifs that look like broken branches with flowers and leaves. Weaving, carpet-making and embroidery experts from Reshetylivka rose to national fame in the late 19th century. Reshetylivka floral motif-based carpet-making traditions – a treasure trove of Ukrainian folk art – were added to the National List of Ukraine’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2017.
Obverse: in the center, against the smooth background of an outline of a landscape scene, is Ukraine`s small coat of arms (to the left); in the middle is a tree of life – a traditional symbol found in the ornaments on Ukrainian weaved carpets, towels, pysankas (painted eggs), and so on; to the right is the coin’s face value: 5; against the backdrop of stylized carpets are the following legends: УКРАЇНА (Ukraine) (to the left) and ГРИВЕНЬ (hryvnias) (to the right); beneath is the coin issue year – 2021. In the center, to the right of the tree of life, is the NBU’s Banknote Printing and Minting Works.
Reverse: there is the following composition: to the left is a smooth outline of a weaver at work; to the right are a colored fragment of a carpet and the following semicircular legend on a smooth background: РЕШЕТИЛІВСЬКЕ КИЛИМАРСТВО (Reshetylivka carpet-making style).