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International Women's Day, March 8. Women in Industry This stamp is part of a series of International Women's Day stamps from 1949. The image given is dedicated to women who worked in the textile industry.
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In the Weaving Industry
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Lacemakers This drawing depicts lacemakers, an industry of textile making that the Soviet Union as both an art form and area of production. Between the 1950s and 1960s, Evgeny Ivanovich Komarov was producting art for national stamps, it is unknown if this is a piece of such work or a person artwork.
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Weavers
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Coat from a Soldier's Cloth Nadezhda Lamanova was a contributing designer to the constructivism movement, guiding the concepts of design, design purpose, and sustainable use of materials. This Image shows the reuse of a military coat into a new design, with instructions on how to on the bottom left corner.
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Textile Center in Kirovobad An oil painting depicting a fabric factory in Kirovobad, Azerbaijan. At this time cotton production has been implemented across the Soviet Union's Central Asian republics, with Azerbaijan being one of the regions for cultivation and fabric production. Much Soviet realism of the cultivation and production would be used for propaganda or promotion purposes, but this painting shows as a still of such area of production rather than for such distribution purposes. More research needed.
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Industrial Print Textile A cotton printed design featuring tractors, trains, and steam boats within flower designs. This is an example of a later "agitprop," or propaganda soviet textile which was a manufactured trend of the late 1920s and early 1930s. This trend was part of the constructivist movement along with the development of soviet identity alongside promotion of the new industrialization of the time.
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Stars and Roses Fabric Design This fabric design stands out from other patterns at the time for its softness. Other designs at the time either mirror the republics' traditional patterns, were part of the new constructivist movement, or followed the campy industry pattern trend. This pattern is still labeled as a Soviet imagery by The Museum of Ivanono Chintz in Russia, possibly by the use of stars and the color red in its pattern.
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Varvara Stepanova in Her Own Unisex Sport Design Photograph of designer, Varvara Stepanova, in one of her own sport designs. This and her other experimental designs are examples of the created "Constructivism" which are designs for function and mass production, such as this unisex sport suit.
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Women Shockworkers A poster calling for an increase of women in skilled labor for production. The use of the red headscarf, already associated with the new liberated communist women of the Soviet Union, is applied directly into promotion of women into the labor force.