Museum of Art Fabrics of A.N. Kosygin Moscow State Textile Academy
117918, Moscow, Malaya Kaluga Street, 1
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The Museum of Art Fabrics is a division of the Moscow State Textile Academy named after A.N. Kosygin. The collection has more than 25,000 storage units. The permanent exhibition presents: Russian art textiles, brocade fabrics of Sapozhnikov, fabrics with samples of fabrics of manufactures of Morozov, Tsindel, Gübner, Baranov ... Western European art is represented by tapestries of the 17th-19th centuries, Jacquard weaving (silk letter by Marie Antoinette, portraits, landscapes). Art Nouveau is represented by a palette of furniture and dressing fabrics, samples of author's clothing models. One of the collections of the museum is a collection of headscarves and shawls from Russia, France, China, India. In the museum you can see national costumes of the peoples of Central Asia, carpets, a robe of Chinese mandarin and much more.