Baratashvili, M. Embroidery (Nakargoba) : album, with an appreciation by Academician Sh. Amiranashvili, 1985. In Georgian, Russian, English, German, French, and Danish.

ბარათაშვილი, მარგარიტა.
ნაქარგობა = Вышивка = Embroidery = Stickerei = Broderie = Broderi : ალბომი / წინასიტყვაობა აკადემიკოს შ. ამირანაშვილისა.
თბილისი: ხელოვნება, 1985 (საქართველოს კპ ცკ-ის გამომცემლობის სტამბა). [50] გვ.: ილ.; 21 სმ.
თავფურცელი და ტექსტი ქართულ, რუსულ, ინგლისურ, გერმანულ, ფრანგულ და დანიურ ენებზე.
რბილი გამომცემლის ყდა. ტირაჟი 40 000.
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Baratashvili, Margarita. Embroidery (Nakargoba) : album, with an appreciation by Academician Sh. Amiranashvili.
Tbilisi: Khelovneba Publishers, 1985 (printed at the press of the Publishing House of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia). [50] pp., illustrated; 21 cm.
Title page and text in Georgian, Russian, English, German, French, and Danish.
Soft publisher's wrappers. Print run of 40,000 copies.
Condition very good: light wear at the corners of the wrappers; text block clean and complete throughout.

A multilingual Soviet-era album devoted to the original embroidery work of the Georgian folk artist Margarita Baratashvili, issued by Tbilisi's Khelovneba ("Art") publishing house in a striking six-language edition -- Georgian, Russian, English, German, French, and Danish -- that points to distribution through Soviet export and cultural-exchange channels rather than domestic sale alone. The album opens with an appreciation by Shalva Amiranashvili, the foremost Georgian art historian of the Soviet period and long-time director of the Georgian State Museum of Fine Arts, who praised the refinement and craftsmanship of Baratashvili's work and her gift for voicing the old traditions of Georgian decorative art in new artistic language. The accompanying text traces more than six decades of Baratashvili's practice, from an early exposure to needlework through her mother to a formative encounter, after her family's move to Tbilisi, with historical samples of Georgian folk embroidery; her earliest independent compositions already reveal the clear influence of Khevsurian highland embroidery, with its characteristic geometric beadwork and appliqué technique. The album reproduces Baratashvili's original necklaces, brooches, and other embroidered ornaments -- built from beads, felt, and thread in the Khevsurian idiom -- across colour plates throughout. The present copy carries a period gift inscription in Russian dated June 1986, a small mark of the album's circulation shortly after publication. Of interest to collectors of Georgian decorative and folk art, Soviet applied-arts publishing, and Caucasus textile and jewelry traditions.