Ancient Russian Ecclesiastical Embroideries
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An illustrated article surveying Russian Orthodox church embroidery from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. It covers icon veils, funeral shrouds, chalice palls, altar frontals and banners, along with the materials and techniques used: split stitch, couched gold and silver thread, silk thread, and pearls and jewels. It also covers the main workshops (Staritzky, Godunov, Stroganov), the painters who supplied designs, and individual dated pieces such as the 1399 veil of Maria of Tver. It has many plates and ends with a bibliography of mostly Russian sources.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1947
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 55
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