Tapestry through the Ages: The Weaving of Tapestries, Part I
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Part I of Trude Guermonprez's series on tapestry weaving, published in the Shuttle-Craft Bulletin. It traces tapestry from the French royal tapissiers of the late 14th century and explains haute lisse and basse lisse looms, the lease rod and half-heddles, cartoon transfer, and building color areas with a comb and bobbins. It contrasts the reproductive French workshop tradition and Jean Lurçat's revival with the designer-weaver traditions of Precolumbian Peru, Coptic Egypt, and old Flemish, Polish and Scandinavian tapestry. It is illustrated with loom diagrams and reproductions of Coptic, Nazca, Lurçat and "Bal des Sauvages" tapestries.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1957
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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