About this Event
Join embroiderer and designer Pamela Smith for an illustrated talk on the history of the Russian dress with reference to items from Dorich House Museum's Russian collection of art and artefacts.
The history of dress in Russia is a fascinating one which can be viewed through many of the items in the Dorich House Museum collection. Saints, tsars, nobles, peasants and servants feature in different artistic forms and represent the dramatic change in style for the nobility due to Peter the Great’s reforms, and the distinctive dress practices persisting for various layers of society until the 20th century.
Pamela will talk you through this history and provide materials which bring the information to life.
Pamela trained as an embroiderer and designer in the 1980s. In 1987 she accompanied her husband on a posting for the British Council in Moscow and was able to develop her life-long interest in Russian art and culture. Later she gained an MA in the History of Decorative Art & Design from the University of Brighton, specialising in the study of Russian textiles, particularly those associated with the Arts & Crafts movement of the late 19th/early 20th-centuries.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Dorich House Museum, 67 Kingston Vale, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 5.00
