Late 19th or early 20th century
Tula Governorate province,
Village Stoyanovo,
Odoevsky district
Village Stoyanovo,
Odoevsky district
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, raised work, drawn thread work
(perevit' embroidery (openwork technique) / coloured perevit' embroidery / white perevit' embroidery, tambour (free-style chain stitch), stlan' (drawn-thread work technique), drawn thread work, stumpwork / double-sided stumpwork) -
MediumCanvas, red calico, colored paper threads
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Geography details
Tula Governorate province,
Village Stoyanovo,
Odoevsky district -
Federal region today
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Federal subject today
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DateLate 19th or early 20th 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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Arranged in the broad ornamental band are elongated female figures with lowered arms alternating with horse-and-rider motifs; the interstices contain solar signs. The figural panel is enclosed by horizontal bands with a variety of repeating geometrical and plant forms.
