Bronze Horseman books travels to Russian and international book fairs several times a year to select books on World Art in Russian collections and Russian art and architecture books based on the interests of our customers at museum and university libraries, art historians, scholars of Slavic visual culture, and collectors. Between trips our book professionals in St. Petersburg and Moscow send us samples of important new books. Please see below descriptions of books we have recently added to our stock.
Moscow: Severnyi palomnik, 2021. Sewn pb. These works from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries show an amazing prowess of weaving using silk, filigree, and [BAKHROMA]. Some works in the Smolensk collection come from Persia, Turkey, Lyons, and Warsaw; others were made by local craftswomen. full page illustrations show each..... More
Helsinki: Designmuseo, 2009. Sewn cl. Chapter titles: The Finnish Ryijy-Rug: Living tradition and artistic interpretation; Emil Cedercreutz, connoisseru of old Ryijys; the painter Gabriel Engberg and Ryijys of the Häme Museum; U. T. Sirelius and the Ryijy-Rugs of Finland; 295 p., 26cm, approx. 200 color illus., Finnish and ENGLISH. More