towel
- Museum number
- 2012,8015.30
- Description
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Towel or runner, linen, with a broad band of embroidery at each end comprising two rows of counterchanged rosettes flanking a line of roses, all in maroon, blue and yellow cotton thread, with applied fringing in the same colours. The rest of the length decorated with narrow bands of blue running stitch. The linen commercially woven.
- Production date
- 1990 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 191 centimetres (including fringe)
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Width: 47 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Made in the village of Scorniceşti, Olt county, Muntenia, in southern Romania, where Nicolae Ceauşescu was born. The traditional village houses were largely destroyed and replaced with apartment blocks as part of Ceauşescu's plan to modernise the village in the late 1980s by turning it into a town. The house in which he was born, built in 1890, was retained and restored.
The triple row of embroidery at each end is characteristic of Oltenia, see example illustrated in G. Oprescu, 'Peasant Art In Romania', The Studio. Special Autumn Number, 1929, p. 99.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2012
- Acquisition notes
- Given to donor by Stefan Nicolescu in Cluj 1990.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2012,8015.30