Textiles
Liudmila Maiakovskaia
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2010. sewn pb. Besides the insights into his life that Liudmila Maiakovskii's relationship with her brother provides, she was an artist and designer herself. As the photographs from the early twentieth century reveal, she was among the first women to make a career of design — in... More
Mir liturgii. Katalog vystavki (The liturgical world. Exhibition catalogue)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2015. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg publishes objects used in religious rites from icons to metalwork for liturgical vessels and textiles for ecclesiastical vestments. Many of the objects for their craftsmanship and... More
Litsevoe shit'e: materialy seminara "Drevnie i sovremennye traditsii zolotoshveinogo iskusstva. Metodika prepodavaniia tserkovoi vyshivki, proshedshego v Novodevichem monastyre 17 maia 2012 (Medieval and contemporary traditions of filigree art. Methods of teaching church embroidery in the past at Novodevichii Monastery)
Novo Devichii, 2014. pb. Works of the sixteenth and seventeenth century are studied from art-historical point of view and as sources for the revival of the art among contemporary craftswomen. 92 p., 22 cm, approx. 60 color ad b/w illus., Rus. More
Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo XVI–XVIII vekov iz sobraniia Ermitazha (Western European Applied Arts from the 16th to the 18th c. from the Collection of the Hermitage)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1996. Sewn pb. The Hermitage honored the 100th anniversary of the opening of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz’s museum-school with this exhibition of furniture, tapestries, majolica, porcelain, glass, textiles, embroidery, and jewelry. Many of these works were originally brought to St. Petersburg by Stieglitz and his collector-agents for..... More
Kovrotkachestvo narodov Rossiiskoi imperii (Carpet weaving by peoples of te Russian Empire)
Vostochnoe literatura, 2007. sewn cl. The author covers the main ethnographic regions into which the Russian Empire is conventionally divided: Central Asia, Caucasus, Ukraine and Russia. She proposes new theories of the origins of carpet weaving not as usually thought among strictly nomadic peoples. She finds its roots in Iranian... More
Drevnerusskoe shit'e v sobranii Novgorodskogo muzeia / Old Russian Embroidery from the Collection of the Novgorod Museum
Novgorod: Novgorodskii muzei-zapovednik, 2002. pb. These highlights of a collection of textile works for liturgical use — shrouds, palls, altar cloths, icon covers, and vestments — demonstrate that the embroiderers were as expressive and ingenious in depicting biblical and hagiographical scenes as were Russian icon- and fresco-painters. 32 p., 21... More
Risunki dlia schetnoi vyshivki: skhemy XIX veka v sobranii Istoricheskogo muzeia (Drawings for embroidery: 19-century patterns in the collection of the Historical Museum)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2018. Sewn pb. Works from London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and various Russian sources illustrate the tastes and interests of a homey and widespread form of applied and decorative art. This first scholarly catalogue of the Historical Museum’s collection is nicely produced with large color plates..... More
Devianosto deviat' imen Vsevyshnego: Klassicheskoe iskusstvo islamskogo mira IX – XIX vekov / Ninety-Nine Names of God: Classical Art of Islamic World from IX to XIX Centuries
Moscow: Fond Mardzhani, 2013. Sewn cl. The works published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow come from an extraordinary private collection of Islamic art formed in Russia: the Mardjani Foundation. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts juxtaposes works from its collection... More
Turkmenskie kovry / Turkmen Carpets
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2001. sewn cl. The collection of the Russian Museum owes its rich sampling of works from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century to the inspired collecting of Nikolai Burdunov and the prerevolutionary collection of the Handicraft Museum in St. Petersburg, much of which passed to the... More
Iskusstvo Velikogo Novgoroda: epokhi sviatitelia Makariia (The Art of Great Novgorod in the period of Makarius)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sixteen museums, private collections, and archives contributed to this glorious Russian Museum exhibition on the last heyday of Novgorod's art. The enlightened and powerful churchman of the first half of the sixteenth century through church commissions spurred grand projects of printing and book publication, icon-painting... More
![Litsevoe shit'e i antiminsy v sobranii Pereslavskogo muzeiia-zapovednika (Embroidery with images and [antiminsy] from the collection of the Pereslav Museum-Preserve). Iu. P. Bratko.](/pictures/thumb/1163.jpg?v=1472226821)
Litsevoe shit'e i antiminsy v sobranii Pereslavskogo muzeiia-zapovednika (Embroidery with images and [antiminsy] from the collection of the Pereslav Museum-Preserve)
Moscow: Sev pal, 2015. sewn pb. The first section of this collection catalogue publishes works of ecclesiastical cloth showing saints, angels, and biblical scenes . The works exhibit the level which embroiderers attained from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century in Russian workshops. Most of them originated around the monasteries... More
Uzornoe tkachestvo narodov Kryma v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia Vostoka (Pattern weaving of Crimean peoples at the State Museum of Oriental Art)
Moscow: Muz vostoka, 2013. Sewn pb. This catalogue publishes forms of textile art that have been extinct since the indigenous populations of Crimea were expelled by Stalin in 1944. The different coasts of Crimea and the inland steppe areas developed their own distinct traditions. Content: collections of Crimean weaving; outline... More
Ermitazhnaia entsiklopediia tekstilia. Restavratsiia. Katalog vystavki (The Hermitage Encyclopedia of Textiles. Conservation. Exhibition Catalogue)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. This is the kind of exhibition and catalogue that only the Hermitage could do - 387 pages of detailed commentary and profuse illustrations on textiles of all kinds (hence "encyclopedia"), from the obvious such as ecclesiastical vestments (Christian and Buddhist), military uniforms, and dress... More
"Etnodzhins". Kollektsiia "narodnoi dzhinsy" iz sobraniia Rossiiskogo etnograficheskogo muzeia
Moscow: Severnyi Palomnik, 2016. Sewn pb. Taking a simple pragmatic material and ornamenting according to local taste has given the republics of the former Soviet Union a new kind of jeans: solid and durable, but also colorful and distinct to the culture. Collection catalogue of the Russian Ethnographic Museum. The... More
Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, tom IV, Tkani, vypusk 1, veera (State Museum-Preserve Pavlovsk: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. IV , T extiles, vypusk 1, Fans)
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2008. sewn pb. The fan collection of Pavlovsk has works originating in Western Europe, the Far East and Russia and dating from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth. The introduction covers such themes as the fan in Russian fashion, changing styles and techniques of making... More
Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, tom IV, Tkani, vypusk 2, dekorativnye vyshivki (State Museum- Preserve Pavlovsk: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. IV, Textiles, vypusk 2, Decorative Embroidery)
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2012. sewn pb. The museum at Pavlovsk, bound as it is by the dimensions of the eighteenth-century palace, can keep only a small part of its collections on permanent display; hence the significance of the publication of complete collection catalogues that make available for researchers the museum’s..... More
Sokrovishcha Iaroslavlia XIII – nachala XX v.: izdeliia iz zolota, serebra, dragootsennykh tkanei s kamnaimia, zhemchugom, maliami : putevoditel po ekspozitsii (Treasures of Yaroslavl from the 13th to the early 20th century: gold, silver, textiles with precious stones, pearls, enamel: a guide to the exhibitions)
Moscow: Sev pal, 2015. 238 p., 20 cm, approx. 150 color illus, Rus. More
Belorusskii narodnyi tekstil': khudozhestvennye osnovy, vzaimosviazi, novatsii (Belorussian folk textiles: artistic foundations, parallels, innovations)
Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, 2013. Sewn cl. The knowledge, skills, and technologies to produce traditional women's clothing in Eastern Slavic society together with the aesthetic sense and awareness of mythological and folk imagery are the themes of this richly illustrated scholarly monograph. The role of folk costume in the twentieth century... More
![Mikhailovskoe kruzhevo iz kollektsii RIAMZ [Riazanskogo istoriko-arkhitekturnogo muzeia zapovednika] (Mikhailov lace from the collection of the Riazan Historical and Architectural Museum Preserve). O. M. Sakharova.](/pictures/thumb/2864.jpg?v=1540518188)
Mikhailovskoe kruzhevo iz kollektsii RIAMZ [Riazanskogo istoriko-arkhitekturnogo muzeia zapovednika] (Mikhailov lace from the collection of the Riazan Historical and Architectural Museum Preserve)
Riazan: Riazan Historical and Architectural Museum Preserve, 2017. Pb. This overview of a tradition of lace-making and embroidery in the town of Mikhailov describes techniques, points out design motifs, identifies craftsmen and looks at a variety of works in the Riazan Museum from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period... More
. O. M. Sakharova.](/pictures/thumb/2865.jpg?v=1540518188)
Riazanskaia vyshivka iz kollektsii RIAMZ [Riazanskogo istoriko-arkhitekturnogo muzeia zapovednika](Riazan embroidery from the collection of the Riazan Historical and Architectural Museum Preserve)
Riazan: Riazan Historical and Architectural Museum Preserve, 2016. Pb. Focusing on the Riazan school as represented in the museum’s collection, the author outlines methods of embroidering, sources of fabrics, conventional patterns, the meaning of embroidered designs in folk lore and everyday peasant culture. 71 p., approx. 60 color and b/w... More
Liturgiini pokrovy na chashu i dyskos iz katalogom tvoriv iz figuratyvnymy zobrazhenniamy zi zbirky Natsional’nogo muzeiu u L’vovi imeni Andreia Sheptyts’kogo (Liturgical Cloths for Chalice and Paten from the Collection of the Andrei Sheptytskyi National Museum, L’viv)
Lviv: Maister knig, 2013. Sewn cl. The cloths used to cover the chalice, the paten, or both together were ornately designed: the varying colors from deep reds and brilliant greens to subdued blues and warm browns, the traditional compositions enlivened by regional distinctions, and the consummate skill of the artists... More
Katalog nabivnykh tkane XIII-XIX vekov sobranii a Roberta Forrera (Catalogue of prints 13th – 19th centuries in the collection of Robert Forrer)
Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2010. sewn cl. The works catalogued here entered the Russian State Library (State Lenin Library at that time) as trophy art taken by Soviet forces from the German Museum of the Book in Leipzig. Since it is only recently that Russian Federation policty "On Displaced Cultural Valuables"... More
Russkoe tserkovnoe shit'e XVII–XXI vv. v kollektsii GMIR / 17th–21st century Russian Church Embroidery from the Collection of the State Museum of the History of Religion
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2017. Sewn pb. These works of church embroidery run the gamut from all forms of vestments, miters, coverings for icons, shrouds, aers, and icons. The pictorial icons are extraordinary for the lifelike expressions embroiders imparted to the faces. Influenced by Western European embroidery, an independent... More
![Peterburgskaia imperatorskaia shpalernaia manufaktura: k 300-letiiu osnovaniia (Saint Petersburg Imperial Tapestry Manufactory: [published] to mark 300 years since its foundation). T. T. Korshunova.](/pictures/thumb/2862.jpg?v=1540518187)
Peterburgskaia imperatorskaia shpalernaia manufaktura: k 300-letiiu osnovaniia (Saint Petersburg Imperial Tapestry Manufactory: [published] to mark 300 years since its foundation)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. Like many arts brought to Russia from Western Europe at the initiative of Peter the Great tapestry-making depended in its first years on foreign masters. Training and then collaborating with Russian craftsmen, they built an independent art tradition and by the mid eighteenth century... More