SOMERSET, N.J. – The Ukrainian History and Education Center (UHEC) recently opened an exhibit titled “Rushnyky: Ritual Cloths of the Cossack Lands of Ukraine”  featuring over 100 handcrafted rushnyky made between the end of the 19th and middle of the 20th centuries. The exhibit showcases rushnyky from Central Ukraine and nearby areas that were part of the Ukrainian Kozak Hetman State of the 17th and 18th centuries: the Poltava, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv and Sumy regions.