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Towel End
1700s–1800s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This lace was used to embellish a towel end. Textiles of this type are valuable for their lacework 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.
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- Title: Towel End
- Date Created: 1700s–1800s
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 30 x 39 cm (11 13/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Collection of Natalia Leonidovna Shabelsky, Moscow, Russia (1841-1904/5), by inheritance to her daughters, Princess Alexandre Sidamon-Eristoff and Mlle. N. de Chabelskoy, sold through B.M. Pushkin, Count B. M. Pushkin sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
- Type: Lace
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.106
- Medium: cotton or linen (est.); straight (continuous) bobbin lace; ground with interspersed motifs of plant and animal forms in plain weave outlined with gimp (heavy cord); applied silk (est.) ribbon
- Fun Fact: Lace making was a common tradition in many cultures because it displayed the skill of the mother or daughter who made the lace.
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Russia, Orel province, 18th- 19th century
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: Textiles
- Accession Number: 1931.106
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