Medieval Russian Embroidery

Medieval Russian Garb

I recently finished reading and translating an article by M.A. Saburova on medieval Russian garb. This article, published in 1997,…

I recently finished reading a chapter from “The History of Russian Art” on the applied arts in Kiev and the…

Introduction Today I am presenting a reproduction of a 16th century style Russian podea, or embroidered icon. Icons such as…

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

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

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

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

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

This article by E. Yu. Katasonova is a great overview of medieval Russian goldwork embroidery. It covers mentions of goldwork…

The article traces the history of origin of ecclesiastical embroidery in Ancient Russia, the use of works of embroidery in…