Tapestry
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Encyclopedia article on tapestry from the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It explains tapestry weaving on high-warp (haute lisse) and low-warp (basse lisse) frames as practised at the Gobelins and Beauvais. It then surveys the history of the art from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome through medieval and Renaissance Europe to Morris's Merton Abbey work, and closes with where major collections are held. Eight plates and several figures show Egypto-Roman, Peruvian, medieval German and Flemish, English, Italian and Irish examples.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 13
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