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EMBROIDERED TRIMMINGS

  • Trimming. Fragment. The end of 18th – Beginning of 19th century. Vologda Province. Veliky Ustyug. Flax, embroidery, lace. 56х187
  • Trimming. The end of 18th – Beginning of 19th century. Vologda Province. Flax, embroidery, lace. 51х182
  • Trimming. The end of 18th century. Flax, embroidery, lace. 52х167
  • Trimming. Fragment. The end of 18th century. Flax, embroidery, lace. 51х189
  • Trimming. The first quarter of 19th century. Novgorod Province. Belozersky District. Flax, embroidery.32.5х185
  • Trimming. Fragment. The end of 18th – Beginning of 19th century. Novgorod Province. Belozersky District. Flax, embroidery. 53х182
  • Trimming. Fragment. The end of 18th – Beginning of 19th century. Pskov Province. Pechersky District. Flax, embroidery. 43х196
  • Trimming. The first third of 19th century. Flax, embroidery.35.5х141
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26 July - 24 September 2012
Stroganov Palace

For the first time this exhibition will present handmade articles from the collection of the Russian Museum in their entirety that have a special place in rich and various art of folk embroidery. Trimmings that are decorated with embroidered, woven and lace patterns edges of sheets were used as an adornment of a wedding bed and became a part of fiancée’s dowry.

The most part of white trimmings that had been mentioned for the first time in 1701, was executed at the end of the 18th – beginning of the 19th century mainly in the provinces of the Russian North. The unique white stitched trimmings – the smart widths (up to 2 meter in length) where figurative compositions are framed with splendid woven lace – are marked with the special artistic peculiarity among the presented articles.

The exhibition is organized with the financial support of OJSC Severstal