Encyclopedia: Weaving Plates, Part II - Velvet/Velours
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A set of ten engraved plates from the Diderot and d'Alembert Encyclopédie showing the weaving of silk velvet (soierie, velours). The plates show the velours ciselé loom in perspective and side elevation, the cantre (creel) and broken batten, warp construction and warping for velvet, and the successive shuttle passes and pile-wire insertions for frisé (uncut loop) and coupé (cut) velvet. Further plates show cutting tools, shuttles, reeds, temples, and silk-throwing wheels (rouet à canette, rouet ourdissoir). Text is limited to plate captions and figure numbers in French.
- Type
- Illustration
- Date
- 1763
- Language
- French
- Pages
- 10
- Weaving drafts
- on 2 pages: 6, 7
- Archive notes
- Contributed by Philippe Demoule
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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