Pavuk Straw Mobile (Himmeli)
with Bozena Hrycyna
Friday, November 20, 2026 | 5:30 pm - 8 pm
Union Hall
$55 + tax | Materials and tools included
Herbal Tea provided
STRAW MOBILE - PAVUK (Ukr) PAJAK (Pol) HIMMELI (Fin) SODAI (Lithua)
Learn to make a simple straw prism “pavuk”, used to trap the bad energy and release good energy into the home. This craft harkens from Northern and Eastern Europe and can be found in most places where grain growing (and straw) is a key component of people’s lives.
“Pavuk" means spider in Ukrainian, and is considered a benevolent presence-- thus these web-like mobiles bring good fortune and blessings to the home.
In this 2.5 hr workshop you’ll get the chance to learn the basic principles of the craft and create your own delicate mobile to bring home. Experience the golden light and sacred geometry as you work with the simple gifts of wheat and oat straw, linen thread, and beeswax.
I’ll show you how to make the most basic elements that you can further build on to make a larger web.
Your Instructor
Bozena Hrycyna
Bozena Hrycyna is director of FOLK CAMP, an organisation connecting people with the folk arts, crafts, music, and land based traditions of Eastern Europe in the Canadian context. As co-founder of the Kosa Kolektiv, Bozena has collaborated with many talented and skilled artists, musicians, and community organisations in Ontario (and across Canada) to promote the richness of Ukrainian and Eastern European cultures, and to facilitate meaningful connections for people (cross-culturally and within their own lineage). Bozena is an amateur singer of traditional village songs, embroiderer, pysanka maker, weaver of threads and grasses, and textile craftsperson… actively learning and sharing these artforms from her Ukrainian/Ruthenian heritage. She has taken workshops and travelled extensively in pursuit of deeper understandings of these and other folkways, and apprenticed to the land, spending the last six years on a homestead near Wilno, Ontario. She currently divides her time between the Ottawa Valley, and southern Ontario.
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