At the end of XIX – early XX centuries, village people used home and machine made fabrics for making clothes. Plant fibres, wool and skin (with or without fur), sometimes even stalks and bark were used as raw materials for traditional dress fabric by Ukrainians of Moldova until the XX century. Wool, mainly sheep wool, was a preferable animal raw material. Summer footwear and men’s hats were made of stalks and tree bark. Hand weaving was a predominant source of dress fabric production. Village crafts women knew very well the potential opportunities of different raw materials. Linen and hemp cloth was used to make men’s and women’s shirts, waistcoats, and scarves. The wool yarn was a basic material for handmade rough cloth for men and women outerwear, as well as for men winter trousers and sashes. In addition to fabrics, fur and leather were widely used for making clothes. Usually, winter clothes were made of sheep hides and fur. Footwear, such as bast shoes (постоли), boots (чоботи) and other, were made of cow, horse, goat hides and pigskin. Since the end of the XIX century, the Ukrainians of Moldova started to use imported cotton and silk yarn for hand weaving. The combination of different kinds of yarn (such as wool, hemp, linen, cotton) allowed a much wider range of fabrics. A certain balance in the use of factory and homespun fabrics among the Ukrainians of Moldova, as well as in the whole region, is observed up to the middle of the XX century, when handmade weaving and clothes making almost completely ceased.