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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2001. sewn cl. The collection of the Russian Museum stems from collections built in the prerevolutionary period, first, from the inspired collecting of Nikolai Burdunov and, second, from the Handicraft Museum in St. Petersburg, whose works passed to the Russian Museum after its closing. The author... 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)
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
Moscow: Muz Vostoka, 2009. pb. The author surveys a complex subject in a concise manner in an attempt to give an integrated picture of the arts of the peoples of the Caucasus. The basis of her study is the collection of the State Museum of Arts of Asian Peoples in... More
Moscow: Severnyi Palomnik, 2016. Sewn pb. 121 pages, color ill., 23 cm. More
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
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
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
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
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
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