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    "localId": "112485",
    "label": "Lace Towel End",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "112485",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Lace Towel End",
    "description": "This Russian lace panel was likely used to embellish the end of a bathing towel. Textiles of this type are valuable for their fine lace making including ancient folk motifs, ritual significance, exemplification of the role of textiles in their society, and in this case, connection to a prominent woman collector, Natalia de Shabelsky, without whom this textile and others like it might have been lost.",
    "date": "c. 1700s–1800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.110",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80005023"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Embroidery"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.110/1931.110_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.110/1931.110_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.110/1931.110_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 45.7 x 42.9 cm (18 x 16 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Russia, Nizhny-Novgorod province"
    ],
    "accession": "1931.11"
}

{
    "tec": "cotton or linen (est.); straight (continuous) bobbin lace (Vologda tape lace). The tape forms figural or plants motifs outlined with gimp (heavy cord) with a polychrome plaited ground linking the tape; applied silk (est.) ribbon and metal thread trim",
    "tombstone": "Lace Towel End, c. 1700s–1800s. Russia, Nizhny-Novgorod province. Cotton or linen (est.); straight (continuous) bobbin lace (Vologda tape lace). The tape forms figural or plants motifs outlined with gimp (heavy cord) with a polychrome plaited ground linking the tape; applied silk (est.) ribbon and metal thread trim; overall: 45.7 x 42.9 cm (18 x 16 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1931.110",
    "collection": "T - Lace",
    "didYouKnow": "Embellishing the ends of everyday towels was a common folk tradition in many cultures because it displayed the skill of the mother or daughter who made this 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.",
            "page_number": "p. 241-248"
        },
        {
            "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.",
            "page_number": "p. 54"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Efimova, L. V., R. M. Belogorskai︠a︡, and Santina M. Levey. Russian Embroidery and Lace. 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)."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kelly, Mary B. <em>Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe</em>. Winona, MN: Northland Press of Winona, 1989.",
            "page_number": "p. 94"
        },
        {
            "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/1931.110",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:56:24.414000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.110/1931.110_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 112485,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Lace",
    "med": "cotton or linen (est.); straight (continuous) bobbin lace (Vologda tape lace). The tape forms figural or plants motifs outlined with gimp (heavy cord) with a polychrome plaited ground linking the tape; applied silk (est.) ribbon and metal thread trim",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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