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"Maidens" and "maiden mothers" on the towel end

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"Maidens" and "maiden mothers" on the towel end

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Mid-19th century

Tver Governorate province,
Ostashkovsky district

Object qualities

Object

textile (towels, carpets, etc.)
Type of arts & crafts

embroidery
Technique

Nabor (weaving stitch), double-sided stitch
(assisi stitch, nabor (weaving stitch))
Medium

Canvas, linen red threads
Geography details

Tver Governorate province,
Ostashkovsky district
Federal region today

Central
Federal subject today

Tver Region
Date
Mid-19th century

Ornament qualities

Composition

Endless Symmetrical
Elements

flora human decorative element

Source of information

Type of source

book “Russian Folk Embroidery: Pictorial Motifs”
Author(s) G. Durasov, G. Yakovleva
Fund that the source refers to

The All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art (during the USSR times the Folk Art Museum of Moscow)

Description

A female figure holding foliate forms in upraised arms and a highly conventionalized Tree of Life are incorporated in the repeat motif of the ornamentation; the outer border is filled with geometrical plant subjects.

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