ZENА HLYNIANY-ART-STUDIO
The private enterprise ZENA-HLYNIANY-ART-STUDIO was founded in 2021 in Lviv, the main task of which was to revive the production of smooth-woven carpets in Hlyniany, a small town near Lviv (Ukraine). The artistic textile industry here arose at the end of the 19th century, thanks to the local priest Filimon Reshetelovych, who founded the Weaving Society in Hlyniany in 1885. The high artistic and technical level of hand-made carpets produced here contributed to their great popularity on the local and world markets. The First World War destroyed the manual industry, which Mykhailo Hamula revived in 1921. He invited outstanding Ukrainian and Polish artists to design carpets, which made possible the rapid development of the enterprise and the great popularity of clay carpets in the world. The First World War destroyed the manual industry, which Mykhailo Hamula revived in 1921. He invited outstanding Ukrainian and Polish artists to design carpets, which made possible the rapid development of the enterprise and the great popularity of clay carpets in the world. With Ukraine’s independence in 1991, Zenovia Shulha, associate professor of the Department of Artistic Textiles of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, held the exhibition «Reviving the Hlyniany’s Carpet» in the National Museum in Lviv named after A. Sheptytskyi, a long-term international ethno-art project «ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE» was launched, which, starting in 1996, will annually provide a large number of artistic events during the year (creative laboratories and master classes, art exhibitions, international plein airs and scientific conferences, symposias, ethnographic expeditions , publications of scientific and popular literature, etc.). The project continues to this day and actually enabled the revival of Hlyniany’s carpet making. The company ZENA-HLYNIANY-ART-STUDIO produces a wide range of art fabrics: - hand-made smooth-woven carpets based on the samples of outstanding artists of the past and present; - paintings by outstanding modern artists; - stage Ukrainian ethnographic costumes; - modern holiday and wedding outfits in ethnic style. Maria Flejchuk, director of the private enterprise ZENA-HLYNYANY-ART-STUDIO.