Cleveland Museum of Art
Border with Crowned and Double-Headed Birds
- Date
- 1700s–1800s
- Medium
- Needle lace, filet/lacis (knotted ground and darned in one direction) and bobbin lace (tape lace) edging; bleached linen (est.)
- Culture
- Russia
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This long border may have functioned as a valance, a decorative drapery made for attachment at the frame of the bed. Crowned double-headed eagles confront peacocks, while smaller birds fly above them. Handmade lace for marriage dowries was produced in large quantities in Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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