Project “Creation and presentation of digitally accessible cultural heritage of Shumen Municipality”

Umbrella

 

Detailed information

Name of the object

Umbrella

Inventory №

8725

Location

Shumen Regional Museum

Material from which the item is made

Textile

Dimensions and weight

Diameter 95 cm, length 65 cm

Method of acquisition and location

Cultural period of creation

Ethnography

Item description

On wooden cylindrical handle slipped metal part, folding, from which black metal rods come out. They are connected to radial bars from the center of the umbrella. Silk manufactured fabric in pink-beige stretched over them. At ends placed bony tubes in yellow, forming the rim of the umbrella. Flowers painted on the fabric. Glass-like handle, curved and mottled in yellow, red, white, light brown. Ripped. Hand sewn around 1940. Back then, dresses with Bulgarian embroidery were fashionable.
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