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.
Exhibition catalogue of Russian peasant folk art from the 17th to early 19th centuries — embroideries, costumes, headdresses, woven cloth, lace, icons and metalwork — compiled by B. M. Pushkin around 1900 for exhibition visitors and collectors. Halftone plates photograph flat textiles head-on, giving counted cross-stitch birds, double-headed eagles, flowering trees, boteh borders and lace panels as high-contrast black-on-white pattern sources.
