Textile traditions of the village of Negliubka and the surrounding villages are a unique phenomenon of Belarusian folk art: for almost half a century, the famous Negliubka towels have been iconic for Belarus. The richness and variety of weaving and embroidery techniques, complex polychrome, and a large ornamental fund are the main features of the element. Weaving uses the brocade (single-thread and double-thread), cross-stitch (cross-stitch “under the canvas”, two-sided and one-sided cross-stitch), selective, slit-tapestry, and multi-thread techniques. Embroidery uses a wide range of techniques, including set, cross-stitch, satin-stitch, “stitching on cuts”, chain stitch, and two-sided stitch-“painting”. In addition, complex connecting seams (“Negliubka net”) and textile weaving are widely used.
Negliubka towels are made in white-red, white-red-black colors, and also have complex polychrome (up to 25 colors and shades in one item). Woven towels are distinguished by their richness of ornamentation: mirror-symmetrical arrangement of ornaments (3-9 patterned ornamented stripes at each end), the use of several dozen types of complex geometric and floral ornaments, and finishing the ends of the towels with looped fringes made of red, white, and black threads. High artistic qualities, distinctive polychrome and complexity of ornamentation characterize numerous products of local craftsmen: multi-colored bedspreads, tablecloths, curtains, and other interior items. Negliubka traditional costume is one of the most archaic and complex costumes of Belarusian folk clothing, in which a white ornamented shirt, a small-checkered women's skirt, a cloth apron, a breast apron ("zapina"), a wide red belt, a patterned woven scarf are harmoniously combined. When creating a traditional costume today, almost all of the weaving and embroidery techniques listed above are used. Nowadays, masters transfer the techniques proper to the Negliubka tradition through training in groups organized at the Negliubka rural weaving center, weaving circle "Junyja tkachyhі" (“Young Weavers”) at the Negliubka secondary school, and at the Vetkovsky District Creativity Center for Children and Youth.
