The Hutsuls are distinguished from other ethnographic groups in the Carpathian Mountains by their traditional folk dress. Outer garments of both sexes consist of a black or dark red coat (serdak), a linen blouse or shirt with multicolored embroidery or glass beads, and a short, sleeveless white sheepskin jacket (kеptar) often ornamented with appliqués of leather, embroidery, and string, and mirror inlays.

Men wear a broad-rimmed hat (krysania) decorated with colored string and plumes, a sheepskin hat in winter, a long shirt over narrow linen trousers, and a wide (remin) or narrow (cheres) belt with purses and brass ornamentation over the shirt. Women wear a wraparound skirt (zapaska or horbotka) and a headband (namitka) or colorful kerchief (khustka). Footwear consists of leather moccasins laced above the ankle.

The Hutsuls are renowned for their artistic wood carving and inlaying of wooden objects with contrasting wood, brass, silver, bone, mother-of-pearl, and glass beads:

For their distinctive ceramics, form everyday pottery to tiles and stoves:

For their handmade jewelry, ornaments, and implements of brass, leather, and bone:

For their vibrant handwoven textiles, lizhnyks and kylyms:

For their distinctive embroidery:

Аnd for their distinctive wooden folk architecture, like this church and this grazhda.

The Hutsul farmstead (grazhda) is notable for its features, from its steep roof, wooden wooden construction and walled enclosure.

Also quite distinctive are their pysanky, as we will see on the pages that follow.

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