Panel for a Headdress (1700–1900): Art, History and Details

Panel for a Headdress (1700–1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This Russian embroidered panel was used to embellish a headdress. Textiles of this type are valuable for their embroidery depicting ancient folk motifs, ritual significance, exemplification of the role of textiles in Russian society, and connection to a prominent woman collector, Natalia de Shabelsky, without whom this textile and others like it might have been lost.

Object facts

• Title: Panel for a Headdress
• Date: 1700–1900
• Culture: Russia, Tambov province
• Type: Embroidery
• Technique: Linen: plain weave; silk: embroidery
• Dimensions: Overall: 10.5 x 16.2 cm (4 1/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
• Collection: Textiles
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1931.75

A detail from the museum

Embroidery was a common tradition in many cultures because it displayed the skill of the mother or daughter who stitched the embroidery.

Collection credit

Gift of Charla Coatoam

Further reading listed by the museum

• Pushkin, B. M, B. M Pushkin, N. de Shabelsky, and N. de Shabelsky. Exhibition of National Russian Art, 17th, 18th and Early 19th Centuries: Peasant Embroideries, Costumes, Headdresses, Hand-Woven Materials, Laces, Ikons, Articles of Silver, Copper, Etc.: Shown by Count and Countess B.m.-Pushkin. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1900.
• Valance, Aymer. "Russian Peasant Industries." The studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art. London: Offices of the Studio, 1893-1964. volume 37, 1906.
• Sidamon-Eristoff, V. P., Princess. Sobranīe russkoĭ stariny Kn. V.P. Sidamon-Ėristovoĭ i N.P. Shabelʹskoĭ: vypusk I-ĭ, vyshivki i kruzheva = Antiquités russes, collection princesse Sidamon-Eristoff et Mlle. N. de Schabelskoi. Moskva, 1910.

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