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Negliubka Textile Tradition Festival in Negliubka/Vetka District
Negliubka village in the Vetka district gives its name to a distinct Belarusian weaving and embroidery tradition that UNESCO added to its Urgent Safeguarding list in December 2025. Local rushnyks and traditional dress use a polychrome palette of roughly 25 shades across more than 120 named patterns, with the skills passed down almost entirely from mothers and grandmothers to daughters within Negliubka's weaving families.
Negliubka, a village in the Vetka district of the Gomel region, gives its name to a weaving and embroidery tradition specific enough that UNESCO inscribed it under its own name rather than folding it into a general Belarusian textile category.