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{
    "localId": "112480",
    "label": "Lace Towel End",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "112480",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Lace Towel End",
    "description": "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.",
    "date": "1700s–1800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.106",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79877687"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Lace"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.106/1931.106_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.106/1931.106_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.106/1931.106_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 30 x 39 cm (11 13/16 x 15 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Russia, Orel province"
    ],
    "accession": "1931.106"
}

{
    "tec": "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",
    "tombstone": "Lace Towel End, 1700s–1800s. Russia, Orel province. 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; overall: 30 x 39 cm (11 13/16 x 15 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1931.106",
    "collection": "T - Lace",
    "didYouKnow": "Lace making was a common tradition in many cultures because it displayed the skill of the mother or daughter who made the lace.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Pushkin, B. M, B. M Pushkin, N. de Shabelsky, and N. de Shabelsky. <em>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</em>. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1900."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Valance, Aymer. \"Russian Peasant Industries.\" <em>The studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art</em><strong>. </strong>London: Offices of the Studio, 1893-1964. volume 37, 1906."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sidamon-Eristoff, V. P., Princess. <em>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</em>. Moskva, 1910."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Holme, Charles, and Studio. <em>Peasant Art in Russia</em>. The Studio, 1912. Special No. London: \"The Studio\", 1912.",
            "page_number": "p. 3-11"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gostelow, Mary. <em>Embroidery of All Russia</em>. New York: Scribner, 1977."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Schwoeffermann, Catherine, Peter Klosky, and Merrill Oliver. <em>Goddesses and Their Offspring: 19th and 20th Century Eastern European Embroideries</em>. Binghamton, N.Y.: Roberson Center for the Arts &amp; Sciences, 1986."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Efimova, L. V., R. M. Belogorskai︠a︡, and Santina M. Levey. <em>Russian Embroidery and Lace</em>. Translated by A. I. Ilʹf. 1st English-language ed. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1982."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kelly, Mary B. \"Embroidery for the Goddess.\" <em>Threads Magazine</em> 11 (June/July 1987).",
            "page_number": "p. 26-9"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kelly, Mary B. <em>Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe</em>. Winona, MN: Northland Press of Winona, 1989."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cook, Bridget M. <em>Russian Lace Making</em>. London: Batsford, 1993."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Grusman, V. M., Elena Madlevskai︠a︡, and Karina Solovʹeva. <em>Collection Chabelskaya: une Russie fin de siècle: portrait de femmes en costume traditionnel</em>. 2010."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lovings-Gomez, Lauren. “The Lost Narrative of Natalia Shabelsky’s Collection of Russian Textiles.” In <em>Hidden Stories/Human Lives: Proceedings of the Textile Society of America 17th Biennial Symposium</em>, October 15-17, 2020. UNL Commons. Accessed 10/20/2021 from <a href=\"https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/\">https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/</a>. doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.tsasp.0117",
            "url": "https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.106",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:56:23.087000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.106/1931.106_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 112480,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Lace",
    "med": "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",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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