Тк-114
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Textiles · Embroidery
Metal Thread Lace
Handmade lace, woven from twisted silver and gilt metal threads. The ornament is a stylized floral motif in the form of acanthus leaves set into individual cartouches, outlined with white silk thread. The lower edge of the lace ends in festoons. Full description
- Date
- 18th century
- Material
- Metallic threads, silk threads
- Technique
- Weaving
Description
Handmade lace, woven from twisted silver and gilt metal threads. The ornament is a stylized floral motif in the form of acanthus leaves set into individual cartouches, outlined with white silk thread. The lower edge of the lace ends in festoons. Along the top edge is a narrow border with white and yellow silk thread woven in.
Monastery-made lace, produced in the second half of the 18th century.
Belonged to the collection of the pre-war Sloboda Ukraine Museum named after H. S. Skovoroda. Remained in the museum during the occupation of Kharkiv during the Second World War (1941–1943).
Record
- Inventory number
- Тк-59
- Title
- Metal Thread Lace
- Collection group
- Textiles · Embroidery
- Projects
- Church Antiquities
- Date
- 18th century
- Material
- Metallic threads, silk threads
- Technique
- Weaving
- Digitisation
- Project “Sloboda Ukraine Code. Church Antiquities”, 2026
- Tradition
- Orthodoxy
