Two-piece blue sylanka "Boikivshchyna"

Sylianky, or braids, are straight strips of beads that are tied around the back of the neck. The name comes from the method of making such jewelry (“syliania” is a way of stringing beads on a thread). Women wore small (two to three centimeters) sylianky every day as a talisman (the strength of the sylianky as a talisman was always determined by the ornament). To increase the power of the amulet, Hutsuls, for example, sewed a beaded ribbon with a protective ornament on a red strip of cloth.