Mid-19th century
Olonets Governorate province,
Kargopolsky district
Kargopolsky district
Object qualities
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Objectclothes: Bodice of a woman's shirt
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Type of arts & crafts
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TechniqueDouble-sided stitch, nabor (weaving stitch), satin stitch
(assisi stitch, satin stitch / slanting satin stitch / counted satin stitch / single-sided satin stitch / double-sided satin stitch / long-and-short stitch, nabor (weaving stitch)) -
MediumCanvas, red cotton threads, colored silk and wool threads, sequins
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Geography details
Olonets Governorate province,
Kargopolsky district -
Federal region today
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Federal subject today
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DateMid-19th century
Ornament qualities
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Composition
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Elements
Source of information
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Type of sourcebook “Russian Folk Embroidery: Pictorial Motifs”
Author(s) G. Durasov, G. Yakovleva -
Fund that the source refers toThe All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art (during the USSR times the Folk Art Museum of Moscow)
Description
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The shoulder-pieces and breast insertions are worked with diamond-forms, crosses, geometrized anthropomorphic and plant motifs. The regular all-over pattern of the sleeves is composed of a diamond-shaped net with minor birds and four-petalled rosettes on foliate stems.
