Second half of 19th century
Kaluga Governorate province
Object qualities
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Object
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Type of arts & crafts
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TechniqueWhite and colored perevity (hardanger), twisted stitch, tambour embroidery
(perevit' embroidery (openwork technique) / coloured perevit' embroidery / white perevit' embroidery, tambour (free-style chain stitch), stlan' (drawn-thread work technique)) -
MediumCanvas, red calico, paper threads
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Geography details
Kaluga Governorate province -
Federal region today
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Federal subject today
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DateSecond half of 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 broad upper band shows a pattern of female figures with diamond-shaped heads and lowered arms alternativing with female riders facing left. The seamed panels of the middle insertion display two oppesed rows of double-tailed birds. Arranged in the outer border is a repeat geometrical pattern of double saltire crosses separated by minor diamond-forms.
