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
Sokrovishcha muzeiia "Novyi Ierusalim" (Treasures of the New Jerusalem Museum)
Moscow: Novyi Ierusalim, 2019. Sewn cl. The chapter on glass comprises vases, goblets, decanters, trays, and animal figurines made in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and attributed to craftsmen in Russia and Europe. Most of the porcelain originates in the the Imperial Porcelain Factory and dates to the late eighteenth..... 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
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
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
Ispanskii stil': Steklo i khudozhestvennyi tekstil’ XVI – XIX vekov v sobranii Ermitazha. Katalog vystavki (Spanish style: sixteenth- to the nineteenth-century glass and textiles in the Hermitage collection); : XVI–XIX .
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022. Sewn pb. The goal of the unusual exhibition at the Hermitage published in this catalogue is to show the distinct style of Spanish applied and decorative arts shaped by the confluence of European and Arabic styles. The curators characterize what is distinct in works by Spanish..... 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
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
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
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
Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, tom IV, Tkani, vypusk 1, veera (State Museum-Preserve Pavlovsk: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. IV , Textiles, vypusk 1, Fans), 5894680417
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 3, Imperatorskii i velikokniazheskii kostium serediny XVIII – pervoi treti XIX veka (State Museum- Preserve Pavlovsk: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. IV, Textiles, vypusk 3, Costume of the Imperial Family and Grand Dukes and Duchesses, 18th to first third of the 19th c.), 9785918160435
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2018. sewn pb. As a frequent residence of the Romanovs, Pavlovsk Palace has rich collections of items that actually belonged to members of the imperial family and were used by them in everyday life and in court ceremonies. Uniforms made for Catherine the Great, ball gowns designed..... More
Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, tom IV, Tkani, vypusk 4, Oblacheniia sviashchenstva i tkanaia tserkovnaia utvar' (State Museum- Preserve Pavlovsk: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. IV, Textiles, vypusk 4, Clerical vestments and ecclesiastical textiles), 9785918160596
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2023. sewn pb. The author summarizes the formation of the collection and catalogues 117 works (mostly Russian, some French) noting origin and provenance, method of manufacture, technique, materials, dating, condition, and artistic traits. Many of the works are published here for the first time. The scholarly apparatus..... More
Sokrovishcha Muroma : dekorativno-prikladnoe iskusstvo iz sobranii a Muromskogo istoriko-khudozhestvennogo muzei a (Treasures of Murom: decorative and applied rts from the Murom Historical and Art Museum); : - -
? Muromskii Istoriko-khudozhestvennyi muzei / S. I Verkhov, 2017. The first section publishes embroidered and painted icons, crucifixes, reliquaries, chalices, and bible covers that come from churches and monasteries in and around Murom. The second section draws on the collection built in the early twentieth century by the painter from..... More
Narodnaia vyshivka XVII – XIX vekov v sobranii Istoricheskogo muzeia (Folk embroidery of the 17th to the 19th centuries in the collection of the Historical Museum)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2023. Sewn pb. This catalogue begins the publication of the Historical Museum’s large collection of embroidery from different parts of the Russian Empire — European Russia, Ukraine, Siberia, the Far East, and Central Asia. Works date as early as the seventeent through the nineteenth century..... More
"V etoi imeni tselaia epokha." Velikaia kniaginia Elena Pavlovna v Rossii (“In this name is an entire epoch”: Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna in St. Petersburg), 9785918160626
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2023. sewn pb. The written documents and visual ones — paintings, prints, and photographs — published in this catalogue of an exhibition at Pavlovsk Palace-Preserve come from collections at Pavlovsk, the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the State Archive, and Pushkin House. They recount together with the authors'..... 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