Well-known master Mykola Kokish tells that he likes working on a loom at dawn, when outdoors is only starting to light up and the first rays of sun just appear. Work brings him peace and tranquility, gives pleasure. It is a kind of meditation, during which the solutions of many life problems involuntarily appear in worker’s mind.

The man says that lizhnyk starts … from grass growing in the mountain valley. The quality of the wool, and therefore of the product, depends on what the sheep will eat. The production process starts from shearing, usually in early April. The wool is being washed, what is important – without any chemicals, and after that dried. After that the wool is scratched, combed, painted and sorted by color, and then the thread of different thickness is being weaved – half-millimeter, millimeter and twomillimeter – depends on kind of product. For example in production of lizhnyk the thickest thread is used.

There are more than twenty masters of wool weaving in Rakhiv Region. As virtuosos of this craft are known Mykola Kokish (village Roztoky), Dosya Grynazhuk and Vasylyna Temitska (village Cherna Tysa), Gafia Vorokhta (village Bogdan) and others.

In order to preserve and promote the tradition of wool weaving in the village of Kvasy in Rakhiv district, a festival-fair “Colours of Carpathian Lizhnyk” was founded. The event is not only entertaining, but also educational and ethnographic – in its program, besides the fair and mass festivities, the weaving master classes have already become traditional.