Ivan Rezansky's SCA Adventures

Representation of Episcopal Power in Pre-Mongol Rus’

Readers of my blog will be aware of my studies in the role of the church in medieval Rus’. Today’s…

Silver Thread Embroidered Bear

I just recently finished another metalwork embroidery piece, a rendition of my wife’s heraldry. Here is Cwen’s registered device: I…

Adventures in Blogging

On Thursday of last week (March 7, 2019, a date that will live in infamy), Blogger managed to lose a…

Several Examples of Muscovite Embroidery from the Time of Dionisius

Today’s post is my translation of N.A. Majasova’s overview of 5 items of Muscovite ecclesiastical embroidery from the late 14th-early 15th centuries,…

The Puchezh Epitaphios of 1441 and Novgorodian Embroidery in the Time of Archbishop Euphemius II

The first time I saw a picture of the Puchezh Epitaphios, still quite brightly hot pink despite being almost 600…

Goldwork Embroidery of Kievan Rus’

Today, I’d like to share with you the following article: Новицкая, М.А. “Золотная вышивка Киевской Руси.” Byzantinoslavica, 1972(33), pp. 42-50.…

The Embroidered Likeness Under an Icon: Images on Suspended Podeai

Podeai (singular: podea) are an embroidered fabric item used in Eastern Orthodox churches to adorn and show honor to particularly…

Opulence in Ecclesiastical Embroidery

The title of this work was perhaps the hardest part to translate. Dragotsennost’ is typically used to mean “gemstone”, but clearly…

“A Polovtsy Khan, or…?”

In 1981, a burial mound in southern Russia near Chingul was excavated. The archeologists working on the site found a…

Early Examples of Medieval Russian Goldwork Embroidery

This article provides an overview of archeological finds of goldwork embroidery fragments from medieval Russia. This includes some of the…