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Tablecloth for bread-and-salt ceremony

1915

Tallinn City Museum

Tallinn City Museum
Tallinn, Estonia

The tablecloth, intended to be used for the traditional salt-and-bread ceremony, is made of white linen and decorated with coloured embroidery at both ends. One end depicts the Tallinn Town hall in brown, red, blue, and yellow, and includes the greater coat of arms of Tallinn and the text in Russian "г Peвель 28 гo oктября 1915 г." (Revel, 28 October 1915). The other end is decorated with pink roses and green leaves in Toledo-style embroidery.

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