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Kosiv Painted Ceramics Festival in Kosiv
Kosiv painted ceramics, a distinctive Hutsul pottery craft inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in December 2019, is centered on the town of Kosiv, where a festival celebrating this glazed, hand-painted earthenware tradition would plausibly showcase the region's potters and their historic patterns.
Kosiv painted ceramics is a traditional Hutsul folk pottery craft centered on the town of Kosiv in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, an area sitting at the crossroads of the ethnocultural regions of Pokuttia and Hutsulshchyna, where surrounding villages' potters historically brought their wares to Kosiv's markets, giving the ceramics their alternate names of Hutsul or Pokuttia pottery.