Sarafan

Costumes

Inventory number
2021.9.6.4.CO.ET.C1820.RU
Description
A brocaded silk Russian traditional dress, in the cannelé lilac silk ground woven with large floral repeats in peach and ivory silks, silver threads, with vertical gold braid panels to front edged in later pink braid and with domed pewter buttons, lined in roller and block-printed cottons, the bodice area lining in plain calico.
Materials
Silk brocade
Silver thread
Cotton
Origin
circa 1820 Russian Empire