FRANKLIN, N.J. — After an unfortunate altercation with a pothole in Central Ukraine, Yuri Mischenko and Natalie Pawlenko stopped at a local car repair shop. There the husband and wife noticed young boys using scraps of cloths dotted with red and white embroidery to clean cars in a car wash. The two couldn’t believe their eyes — the boys were using remnants of rushnyky — sacred ritual cloths — as rags.
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Women in Ukrainian traditional embroidered clothes sing as they celebrate Ivana Kupala in Pyrohiv outdoor Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine on July 6, 2018.
