English translation by Eugenia Tolmachoff of N. Sobolev's 1912 Moscow book on hand-block-printed fabrics in Russia, with the final section on block-printing technique omitted. It covers the history of the craft, the icon-painters and court masters who decorated cloth, apprenticeship, the trade in printed fabrics in Moscow, and Eastern, Byzantine and Western influences on the designs. Many plates show printed linens and cottons from Moscow and Smolensk museums and the Brooklyn Museum, including chasubles, kerchiefs, curtains, book bindings, sarafans and tablecloths. It is followed by notes on cotton fabrics (zenden, kindiak, mitkal and others) excerpted from V. Klein, an appendix glossary of Russian terms, persons and places, and a bibliography.

Type

Article

Date

1940

Language

English

Pages

61

Archive notes

Several related articles combined.