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Lace Towel End
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLace 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
