> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Anna Koriagina > Reference:: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2025/07/04/art-weaves-a-thread-between-paris-and-the-ukrainian-frontlines_6743005_117.html > Date:: 2025 > Tags:: #warp #Ukraine > WeftLinks:: [[Peace and justice value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft provides a peaceful means of championing justice.]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Embroidery became a means of celebrating Ukrainian culture when it was under attack. ### Highlights > Ukrainian artist Polina Moroz painted scenes of her homeland's summer and asked soldier-embroiderer Ruslan Panchuk to add traditional stitches. Panchuk worked on the canvases while serving on the front lines in Ukraine during the war. Their joint art now shows in Marseille, linking Paris and the battlefield through creativity and hope. > In 2024, she asked a longtime friend, 41-year-old Ukrainian embroiderer Ruslan Panchuk, who remained in Ukraine, to collaborate with her. Why not embroider birds, marsh reeds and abstract elements onto her canvases? > > His embroidery – a craft central to the country's identity – adorned the First Lady Olena Zelenska's outfits for Ukraine's National Day on August 24 in both 2022 and > > Whenever he "found a free hour," he would embroider "in the fields," he joked – a euphemism for being in a war zone. "