Christmas is one of the most vibrant family holidays in Ukraine. Preparations begin long in advance, and the celebration blends tradition with modernity. Some decorate their homes with a didukh and Christmas charms known as pavuk. Others simply put up a Christmas tree, adorning it with a star, glass balls, and various holiday figures. Many do both.
The Yellow Blue Business Platform (YBBP) has compiled a list of six Ukrainian manufacturers of handmade Christmas decorations for every taste. Their products include traditional didukhs and pavuks, hand-painted glass ornaments, soft fabric toys, and ceramic and wooden figures. Several collections are inspired by the works of prominent Ukrainian artists. All these items can be ordered internationally, allowing you to feel the atmosphere of a traditional Ukrainian Christmas and share it with friends, even thousands of miles from home.
Klavdievo Factory of Christmas Glass Decoration
About the manufacturer: Klavdievo is the largest manufacturer of handmade holiday ornaments in Eastern Europe. The factory is located in the Kyiv region and has been operating since 1948. Its ornaments are sold not only in Ukraine but are also exported to Europe and the US. The creation process is complex: masters first blow the glass ornaments, and then artists apply drawings using acrylic paints. If a drawing or ornament is highly detailed, an artist may work on it for an entire day. Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the factory offered tours during the autumn and winter seasons, allowing everyone to see how the ornaments were created. In 2025, however, tours are only held at the Manor of Christmas Stories, where employees craft glass and straw Christmas stars and conduct master classes for visitors.
Its Christmas decorations: Classic-design toys—such as balls, fir tree figures, snow-covered houses, and festive characters—are priced from $3 to $34. Detailed hand-painted ornaments from the Christmas Stories collection cost between $16 and $38. These include complex-shaped figures with many colorful elements, such as elves, carriages, or birds, as well as balls featuring sophisticated designs like reproductions of paintings by Ukrainian writer and artist Taras Shevchenko.
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Grono
About the manufacturer: Grono is a producer of ornaments, textiles, and home decor, founded in October 2022 by event agency owner Pavlo Chmyruk and graphic designer Yuliana Strypa. The brand’s story began with the idea of creating an alternative Christmas tree topper in the shape of a trident. The assortment later expanded to include candles, ceramic candle holders, embroidered towels and tablecloths, silk scarves, silver, and ceramic ornaments. They also offer collections of Christmas ornaments, such as balls painted in the styles of Ukrainian artists Maria Prymachenko and Kazymyr Malevich.
Strypa develops the Christmas ornament designs, creating sketches with the brand’s head artist. All of the brand’s designs consistently feature elements from the works of Ukrainian artists, which aims to help popularize Ukrainian culture abroad.
Its Christmas decorations:
- Two sets of 6 balls painted with motifs inspired by the works of Maria Prymachenko—Prymachenko’s People and Prymachenko’s Beasts—cost $122 each. The brand donates a portion of the profit to the artist’s family foundation.
- Grono reproduces fragments of Kazymyr Malevich’s paintings in two collections of 4 balls each: Malevich’s Suprematism and Ukrainian Village. They cost $80 per set.
- Ukrainian Christmas traditions are depicted in two sets of 6 balls: Koliada and Malanka, priced at $79.
- A glass Christmas tree topper in the shape of a trident, covered with potal and protected with lacquer. The trident costs $30 in a gift box and $23 in a standard box. Grono donates 10% of the profit to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- The brand also offers symbolic ornaments. The Chestnut toy ($21) is dedicated to Kyiv, and the Lily (Lileika) ($19) is dedicated to Plast, Ukraine’s national scout organization. These are sent in gift boxes.
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Koza Dereza
About the manufacturer: Koza Dereza is a Ukrainian family-run workshop that has been creating clothing, jewelry, souvenirs, and New Year’s ornaments since 2008. Their assortment includes traditional Ukrainian Christmas decorations: a straw spider that is hung from the ceiling, and a didukh woven from wheat, oat stalks, and fragrant herbs, which is placed on the holiday table. Koza Dereza also sews scented fabric figures of Christmas characters and attributes, specifically for vertep. In addition to holiday decorations, the brand also manufactures embroidered clothing and traditional Ukrainian jewelry, such as beaded necklaces, korali, and dukachi. The masters reproduce traditional patterns and use folk techniques in their work. All products are eco-friendly and comply with safety requirements for textile and wooden goods.
Its Christmas decorations: Koza Dereza sells sets of ornaments made from natural fabrics with Ukrainian patterns. They are filled with synthetic batting and painted with acrylic paints. A set of 10 pieces costs between $90 and $180. Some toys are scented with coffee, cinnamon, and vanilla. The brand also manufactures figures molded from wood sawdust, ground paper, and buckwheat husks. These depict prominent Ukrainian figures, Christmas characters, birds, and cats, and are priced at $7–16. Traditional Ukrainian decorations, such as didukhs, grapevine tree toppers, and straw spiders, cost around $20.
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Tsvite Teren
About the manufacturer: Tsvite Teren is a brand of ceramic and semi-precious stone jewelry and accessories, founded in 2021 by entrepreneur Olha Ostapenko. Initially, she created the jewelry herself, but later hired masters who work according to her sketches. Ostapenko’s ideas for new collections are often spontaneous, connected to memories, childhood stories, and associations inspired by traditional Ukrainian motifs.
The brand paused operations at the start of the full-scale invasion when Ostapenko left Kyiv. However, it quickly resumed, releasing the new Peaceful (Myrni) collection of jewelry in April 2022. A centerpiece of the collection is a porcelain white bird that has become the brand’s signature item. Tsvite Teren currently offers 14 collections and over 300 types of jewelry. All products are handmade.
Its Christmas decorations: Tsvite Teren created the Drimota (Slumber) Christmas ornament collection, which includes 6 porcelain tree decorations. These are a star coated in liquid gold and five animal figures with gilded details: a bunny, a horse, a chicken, a ram, and a rocking horse. All figures are made using the molochinnya technique—they are dipped in milk before being fired in the kiln, giving the porcelain a natural caramel shade. The set costs $166; a single animal toy is $26, and the star is $47.
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UkrGifts
About the manufacturer: A family business founded by entrepreneur Yulia Hrushko in 2015. UkrGifts creates wooden ornaments, candle holders, Christmas tree toys, and home decor. All products are manually decorated with Petrykivka painting, a Ukrainian folk art technique.
Its Christmas decorations: UkrGifts' toys are volumetric and flat wooden figures, painted on both sides. These include fir trees, mushrooms, bells, birds, and stars. Some figures have movable elements or can be unscrewed to place small gifts inside. A single toy costs between $10 and $53. For those who find it difficult to choose from the large assortment, UkrGifts created a “surprise box” with 10, 15, or 25 items for $116, $171, and $282, respectively.
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LoraShen
About the manufacturer: A floristic company founded in 2011 by entrepreneurs Larysa Shen and Oleksii Parkhomenko. LoraShen delivers exquisite floral arrangements across Kyiv, and decorates storefronts, wedding halls, and other spaces with flowers and greenery. The brand also has its own workshop where masters create handmade ceramic products—vases, flower pots, plates, jewelry boxes, figurines, and other decorative elements.
Its Christmas decorations: LoraShen offers several collections of ceramic Christmas tree decorations.
- A set of 12 ZviroKroot balls, painted with motifs from Maria Prymachenko’s works, costs $1,026. Each ball depicts one of the fairy-tale beasts from the artist’s paintings.
- The Evenings on a Farm Near Dykanka collection features 5 figures of characters from Ukrainian writer Mykola Hohol’s short story Christmas Eve. A set with white toys costs $140, while a colored set is $205.
- A set of 5 white figurine characters from German writer Ernst Hoffmann’s fairy tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King costs $77. Colored versions of the figures can be purchased individually for $9–25.
- The Myths of Ancient Greece collection features 3 balls with raised patterns resembling a bas-relief. One ball is priced at $18.
Order ZviroKroot Christmas balls
Order Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka set
Order toys from the Nutcracker and the Mouse King series
Order Myths of Ancient Greece balls
