Leather products

Postoly are soft Hutsul footwear made from a single piece of leather without a sewn sole, which were tied to the feet with a rope and worn by grandchildren.
 The most important footwear for the Hutsuls was the postol.
 In Hutsulshchyna, two types of footwear are made: boots and shoes.
 g) Harness.
 c) Clothing accessories (belts, bags, wallets, etc.).
 b) Footwear (shoes, boots, ankle boots).
According to their functional purpose and method of production, they can be classified into the following groups: a) outer fur clothing and headwear (coats and capes).
 Products made from artificial leather in Hutsulshchyna are intended exclusively for daily needs.
A professional who repairs leather and sews products from it is called a koshnyr or shoemaker; depending on the functional purpose of leather products in fur clothing (making coats, hats, caps, etc.) and footwear production (soles, boots), leather products are included in the complex of folk art.
"Leather products" is a branch of the Folk Crafts Combine and is engaged in the production of leather, fur, and sewn clothing products for everyday life, ritual traditions, folk art, and decorative-applied art.

Festive costumes are sewn and worn in Kosmach, Yavoriv, Brustury, Holov, Snidavka, Sokolyvka, Babyn, Shepota, Zamohor, Zelenyi, Dzembronia.
Aside from footwear, boots were also made here, which were a symbol of wealth and were worn with festive attire.
However, due to the complexity of the mountainous terrain and the peculiarities of mountain paths, postoly are increasingly used.

Hutsul masters from the villages of Snidavka, Burstura, Shepota, Utrope, Verkhovyna, and Krasnoyillya produced belts-cheles and bags-tobivkas.
Hutsul cheresi are belts 35-40 cm wide, made from one or two thick pieces of leather and fastened with a buckle of 5-7-9.
Belts with metal decor were also made, which were worn by both women and men.
In each settlement, the decoration, shape, length, and color of the products vary.
Today, Hutsulshchyna is perhaps the only region in Ukraine where the founders of domestic leather processing live and work.
In Hutsul villages, one can meet shoemakers and koshnyrs who, by tradition, make festive hats, postoly, and belts to order.

Several national centers of leather production with artistic features have emerged in Hutsulshchyna.