Cleveland Museum of Art

Panel for a Headdress

Date

1700–1900

Medium

Linen: plain weave; silk: embroidery

Culture

Russia, Tambov province

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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

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