“Runner for a dresser,” fide Kaethe Kliot, owner, Lacis, 2001; black handmade lace with angel and flower designs, dense fabric. 57 x 254 cm.
Donor:
(anonymous)
Collection place:
Russia
Verbatim coll. place:
Malta. “Chechoslovakia or Russia, ca. 1870s” fide, Kaethe Kliot, owner, Lacis, 2001.
Culture or time period:
Russians
Collector:
Mrs. William Fitzhugh Sr.
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Lace (needlework) and Table runners
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
October 13, 1985
Context of use:
c. 1925 Maltese lace-making was revived in 1833. Genoese taught bobbin lace techniques to the Maltese. “This is not Maltese lace; it is Idria style bobbin lace with motifs of angles and flowers made in 1870s in Russia or Chechoslovakia.”Fide:Kaethe Kliot, owner, Lacis, 2001. See 7-10044.
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)