Bookmark "Bride Doll"
Item: C0311
Theme: Russia
Material: Textile
Brocade, polyester
The total size 5õ20 ñm, upper part 3-4 ñm
This is a detachable bookmark with the flat marking part of the doll placed between book pages and the upper embossed end protruding from the upper part of a text block. This rag-doll bookmark represents a bride.
The Russian wedding ritual lasted for several days. The bride first went to a “hen party”, then was wedded in the church, took part in the wedding feast in her groom’s house that continued well into the next day – each time wearing a different dress of her own handiwork. After the wedding they would undo her maiden plait and twine two plaits without ribbons fastening the plaits in a bun or wreath and for the first time put on her head a kokoshnik headgear adorned with brocade, galloon, beads and pearls. Kokoshniks were regarded as heirloom and were carefully preserved and transferred after death.
The total size 5õ20 ñm, upper part 3-4 ñm
This is a detachable bookmark with the flat marking part of the doll placed between book pages and the upper embossed end protruding from the upper part of a text block. This rag-doll bookmark represents a bride.
The Russian wedding ritual lasted for several days. The bride first went to a “hen party”, then was wedded in the church, took part in the wedding feast in her groom’s house that continued well into the next day – each time wearing a different dress of her own handiwork. After the wedding they would undo her maiden plait and twine two plaits without ribbons fastening the plaits in a bun or wreath and for the first time put on her head a kokoshnik headgear adorned with brocade, galloon, beads and pearls. Kokoshniks were regarded as heirloom and were carefully preserved and transferred after death.
