Textile

Textile used as bed decoration with a floral design in blue, green, orange, pink and white. The three sides are hemmed and one side in selvaged. There is a sixteen centimeter crocheted cream decoration in geometric design sewn to bottom edge with a tie at each corner of crocheted decoration. This is another innovation of the Socialist period and was very common then. When beds changed from the wooden decorated style to iron camp beds that are easy to take apart and move, people decorated the camp beds with a crocheted cloth that fit under the mattress so that only the crocheted part hung over the bedframe. The decorations were knitted by hand from Russian cotton thread, using the technique of one-needle knotting.