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This Russian embroidered panel was likely used to embellish the end of a bathing towel. Textiles of this type are valuable for their fine embroidery of ancient folk motifs, ritual significance, exemplification of the role of textiles in their society, and in this case, connection to a prominent woman collector, Natalia de Shabelsky, without whom this textile and others like it might have been lost.
Russia, Nizhny-Novgorod province, early 19th century
plain weave silk (est.) ground with polychrome silk (est.) and metal thread chain stitch embroidery; applied silk (est.) ribbon and metal thread trims
Overall: 28 x 93 cm (11 x 36 5/8 in.)
Did you know...
Embroidering the ends of everyday towels was a common folk tradition in many cultures because it displayed the skill of the mother or daughter who stitched them.
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Portrait of a Man (Portrait d'un homme), 1898 (printed 1927). Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901). Drypoint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer 2016.252
More at clevelandart.org/art/2016.252
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