Today you will see the series of photos dedicated to the Textile and Embroidery Department of the Lavra Museum of Cults and Life (part of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town) date from the 1920s - early 1930s.

The collection of the Textile and Embroidery Department included thousands of original monuments of textile art and embroidery of the 17th-20th centuries from Europe and the East. The major part of the collection encompasses works of Ukrainian gold and silver embroidery of the 17th-18th centuries. The collection also included samples of folk embroidery, woven carpets, and Flemish tapestries. The leading place in the exposition was occupied by ecclesiastical vestments and textiles. The first  head of this structural unit was an archaeologist Mykhailo Rudynsky. During 1929–1933, the collection of the Department was under the curatorial charge of an art critic Maria Novytska, who made a significant contribution to the study of Ukrainian embroidery, folk weaving, European and oriental fabrics of the 16th – 18th centuries. The Department was located in the premises of the Metropolitan's House (building Nr. 2) and the interior of the Annunciation Church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Next week in the project “Memories of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” you will be able to see historical photos dedicated to the Department of Writing and Printing of the Lavra Museum of Cults and Life (part of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town).

Picture captions:

1. Exposition of the Textile and Embroidery Department of the Lavra Museum of Cults and Life. February 28, 1925 [Institute of Manuscripts of Volodymyr Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, photo Nr. 278, file Nr. 430, p. 5]

2. Exposition of the Textile and Embroidery Department of the Lavra Museum of Cults and Life. 1925 [NKPHCP, Inv. Nr. KPL-F-9388]

3. Visitors and staff of the Lavra Preserve. The 1920s [NKPHCP, Inv. Nr. KPL-F-10603]

4. Showcase of the Textile and Embroidery Department of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town. The 1920s [NKPHCP, Inv. Nr. KPL-F-9115]

5. Aër “Intercession of the Holy Virgin” of 1692 from the collection of the Textile and Embroidery Department of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town [NKPHCP, Inv. Nr. KPL-N-2295]

6. Visitors of the Textile and Embroidery Department of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town with Maria Novytska. The second half of the 1920s - early 1930s [NKPHCP, Inv. Nr. KPL-F-10693]

7. Shroud. The contribution of Archimandrite Zosima Valkevych made in 1769 to the Great Pechersk Church. From the collection of the Textile and Embroidery Department of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town [NKPHCP, Inv. Nr. KPL-N-3184]

8. Exposition of the Textile and Embroidery Department of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town. The early 1930s [NKPHCP, Inv. Nr. KPL-N-3067]

9. Showcase in the exposition of the Textile and Embroidery Department of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town. The early 1930s [NKPHCP, Inv. Nr. KPL-F-9357]

10. Fragment of the shoulder band of the vestment with the embroidered composition “Deisus with the Apostolic Host”. The middle of the 17th century. From the collection of Textile and Embroidery Department of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town [NKPHCP, Inv. Nr. KPL-N-3144]

11–12. Exposition of the Textile and Embroidery Department of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town. The early 1930s [NKPHCP, Inv. Nr.  KPL-N-3071, KPL-N-3074]