Textiles

Features items from all over the world, including ancient and contemporary European, Islamic, Asian and African costume, textiles and accessories┘

19.07.2006

Intimate fashion Unlike other details of costume, the history of underwear is rather short. The combination of hygienic, aesthetic, and ethic concepts of underclothes appeared in Europe no sooner than in the middle of...

02.08.2005

Gobelin Gobelin was the name of a family of dyers, who in all probability came originally from Reims.

02.08.2005

Accessories of the XVIIIth century▓s dress The State Hermitage Museum▓s collection is rich in pictures and sculptures of Western-European and Russian masters, and the works of applied and decorative art.