Concerned about preservation, enhancement and promotion of priceless treasures - Ukrainian folk clothes, Vira Matkovska managed to collect samples of unique festival women and men shirts from each village of Borshchiv area. Collection of traditional clothing of the end of XIX - XX centuries from Borshchiv - only one in Ukraine. Unique in nature, vibrant and spiritually rich Borshchiv embroidery are well known not only in Ukraine but also abroad. There is no analogues of the system, a full collection of V. Matkovska devoted to the traditional costume of Borshchiv area, both in Ukraine and world.
The collection includes more than a thousand women's and men's shirts of the past. Their exceptional feature is unique archaic patterns and techniques as they are embroidered. Some of them have already lost, for example, "kolodky".
The feature collection that distinguishes it among other museums and private collections of Ukrainian folk art, it is the presence in the middle of XX century shirts. This group of monuments has not become an appropriate subject of interest museum professionals, art historians, found no clear assessment among collectors. V. Matkovska was the first who payed attention to them. With its artistic and stylistic and technical features - is another unique page history of Ukrainian folk art, to some extent saved by collector.
In addition to traditional shirts collection complement other components of national costumes and fabrics leisure: female waist dress - homespun wool wraps, "zapaski", skirts "shalyanivky"; men pants with homespun hemp cloth, covers decorated with applique and embroidery, fur sleeveless "leybyky"; women sleeveless of embroidered velvet, silk, beads, jewelry designs, homespun tablecloths, embroidered sheets and pillowcase.
In general, private collection of more than half of thousands of unique attractions that have unique historical and artistic value. Qualitative and quantitative indicators of a private collection in its entirety to help trace the processes that are important for understanding the continuity of folk art traditions of the Ukrainian people.
S.P. Pavliuk - Director of the Institute of Ethnology, corresponding member of NASU, Professor