Myroslava Petrivna Kot née Buha, (5 October 1933 – 29 December 2014) was a Ukrainian

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. From 1991, she was the head of the Department of Methodology and History of Ukrainian Decorative and Applied Arts at the Teachers’ Training College in

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. She was awarded Master of Folk Crafts of Ukraine in 1995, and an Honorary Citizen of

in 2012. Myroslava Kot studied Ukrainian embroidery paying particular attention to Drohobych patterns.. Her works have been exhibited in Ukraine,

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and the

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. 19 of her students became Ukraine People’s Masters of Decorative and Applied Arts..

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