Textiles
Sokrovishcha drevnego Uglicha XV – XX vekov: dekorativno-priklanoe iskusstvo muzeinogo sobraniia [Uglichskogo istoriko-arkhitekturnogo i khudozhestvennogo muzeia] (Treasures of ancient Uglich of the 15th to the 20thcentury: decorative and applied arts from museum collections [of the Uglich Historico-Architectural and Art Museum]);; XV-XX : -
Moscow: Grand kholding / Uglichskii Historiko-arkhitekturnyi i khudozhestvennyi muzei, 2009. Sewn cl. Like most provincial museums Uglich Historical, Architectural, and Art Museum reflects the art of the region where it is located: the provenance of most works shows they come from monasteries, churches, and estates of the nobility in or..... More
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
V poiskakh sovremennogo stilia: leningradskii opyt. Vtoraia polovina 1950-kh – seredina 1960-kh godov (In search of a contemporary style: the Leningrad experiment of the late 50s and early 60s)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2019. Sewn cl. The second half of the twentieth century in the Soviet Union has receded far enough in time for historians of art to recognize its most characteristic achievements. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Russian Museum publishes works from ten museums and private..... More
Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo XVI–XVIII vekov iz sobraniia Ermitazha (West European Applied Arts from the 16th to the 18th c. from the Collection of the Hermitage) ; XVI-XVIII :
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 the Russian Empire)
Moscow: 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..... More
Armianskaia kollektsiia Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia istorii religii (Armenian Collection of the State Museum of the History of Religions)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Religii, 2011. Sewn pb. The museum’s collection has paintings on religious subjects from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. They represent several styles in which the Armenian church and artists dealt with sacred themes: icons, general biblical scenes, depiction of the main events in Armenian..... More
Bliki na kovre. Kovry i zhivopis’ Valeriia Sakhatova (Flashes on a carpet: carpets and paintings by Valerii Sakhatov)
Moscow: Fond Mardzhani / Muzei Vostoka, 2014. Sewn pb. The artist whose paintings are published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Orient (Muzei Vostoka) has a style continuously evolving from compositions of colors and forms to vaguely representational depictions of figures and places. Inspired by..... More
Pravoslavnye tserkovnye oblacheniia XVII – nachala XX veka v sobranii Ermitazha (Russian Orthodox church vestments from the 17th to the early 20th century in the Hermitage collection)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn pb. This is the first exhibition devoted to ecclesiastical vestments in the Hermitage's collection. The works themselves are presented as fine textiles — materials and techniques, styles and patterns are examined — and as a genre of costume. Most works originate with clergy that served..... More
Turkmenskie kovry / Turkmen Carpets
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2001. sewn cl. The collection of the Russian Museum stems from collections built in the pre-Revolutionary 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)
Moscow: Severnyi palomnik, 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
Liubov' Popova: forma, tsvet, prostranstvo / Lubov Popova: Form, Color, Space
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2019. Sewn pb. Every genre seems to have been kindred to Popova: besides her famous paintings in which she experimented with form and color after studying with the cubists in Paris, she designed and illustrated posters (slogans and announcements), devised textiles and clothing in the style of..... More
Ryijy! = The Finnish ryijy-rug
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
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 display and hence the significance of the publication of complete collection catalogues that make available for researchers the museum’s..... More
Tkan' avangarda (Avant-Garde textiles)
Moscow: Rip-Kholding, 2020. Sewn cl. The experimental forms of the Russian Avant-garde were expressed in every branch of fine and applied art. Focusing on textiles of the 1920s and early 30s, the author of this monograph connects painting and drawing with clothing design, theater costumes with abstract art, schools of..... More
IDEOLOGY, FORM, MATERIAL - THE COLLECTIONS OF DESIGN MUSEUM HELSINKI
Helsinki: Designmuseo, 2018 (2nd edition). Sewn pb. The book publishes a wide selection of works by Finnish designers — innovations, international achievements, less well-known yet historically important examples of furniture, glass, textiles, and other applied and decorative arts. More than an overview, the authors give a concise history of how..... More
Udmurt kalyk puzhyiaton / Udmurtskaia narodnaia vyshivka / Udmurt Folk Embroidery
Izhevsk: Udmurtiia, 2009. Sewn pb. This catalogue publishes examples of embroidery from the collection at the Udmurt Gerda National Museum. Most works date to the nineteenth century and demonstrate the distinct aesthetic of the Ural Mountain people — deep colors, original patterns, high level of craftsmanship. 88 p., approx. 200..... 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 policy "On Displaced Cultural Valuables"..... More
Slutskie poiasa v sobranii Smolenskogo gosudarstvennogo muzeiia-zapovednika; - : 2020
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
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 applied arts and costume )vestments, miters, coverings for icons, shrouds, aers) to works of religios art (icons). The imagery embroidered on icons is extraordinary for the lifelike expressions imparted to the faces. Influenced..... More
Peterburgskaia imperatorskaia shpalernaia manufaktura: k 300-letiiu osnovaniia (Saint Petersburg Imperial Tapestry Manufactory: [published] to mark 300 years since its foundation), 9785935727864
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
Dekorativno-prikladnoe iskusstvo Sankt-Peterburga za 300 let: Illiustrirovannaia entsiklopediia, tom 1 (An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Three Hundred Years of Decorative and Applied Arts of St. Petersburg, vol. 1)
St. Petersburg: Ars, 2004. sewn cl. In the first volume of a three-volume survey of the Hermitage's collection of applied and decorative arts curators and scholars of the Hermitage Museum covers tapestries, textiles, stone-carving, porcelain, and glass. Detailed entries describe each work, its stylistic and technical characteristics, trace provenance, and..... More
The Art of the Embroiderer: Western European Embroidery in the Hermitage from the Sixteenth to the early Twentieth Century
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2004. Sewn cl. The Hermitage has a superb collection of Western European embroidery (approximately 1500 articles), most of which, owing to their sensitivity to light and air, are in closed storage. Publishing 307 of its finest works in this catalogue, the museum displays altar hangings and vestments..... More