La Dentelle Russe: Histoire, Technique, Statistique [Russian Lace: History, Technique, Statistics]
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French translation of Sophie Davydoff's prize-winning treatise on Russian lace, translated from the Russian under the author's direction. The text covers the author's field research (begun 1879-80) in the lace-making districts of Moscow, Ryazan, Tula, Novgorod, Vologda, Vyatka, Kazan and elsewhere, a historical sketch of the origins of Russian lace including metallic gold and silver lace, and the domestic lace industry with tables of workers' daily earnings. It also describes the practical lace school (Ecole Marie) and the Moscow lace society. The bulk of the volume is about 80 phototype plates of Russian bobbin lace edgings, insertions and collars with bilingual Russian and French captions, followed by a plate explanation section giving date, technique, locality and collection for each piece.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1895
- Languages
- French, Russian
- Pages
- 109
- Archive notes
- Reduced to 80% to fit on page. Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish