SUMY TAPESTRIES are presented by Liudmyla Fedevych from Sumy art museum. Most probable that there are samples of XVIII - XX centuries in the collection that counts more than 50 units. In the collection there is only one work from Podillia that has date. It's made on a wool basis with four different motives "flower pot", with monogram "A.K." and date "1815". The same basis have some flower tapestries from Livoberizhia and some geometrical. The places were the majority of tapestries were made are still unknown. The main museum's fund is composed from tapestries mainly from Central Ukraine and Livoberizhzhia that are decorated with conventionalized plant motives. Conditionally it's possible to outline the following styles: "baroque", "rokail", "empire", "archaic" and pure folk styles. In Ukraine tapestry technique was influenced not only by Persian flower tapestries but by Western European tapestry technique as well. Several tapestry companies are known to exist in Sumy area till the second half of the XIXth century - in the village Svarkovy, Hlukhiv district; in the village Mykhailivtsi, Lebedynskyi district; in Okhtyrsk and Romenskyi districts; count P.K. Rozumovskyialso had the plant. Collectors and keepers of the collection left unique samples of Ukrainian tapestry.