Tapestry
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Encyclopedia article on tapestry that defines the term and its eight senses, separating hand-woven tapestries from machine and printed imitations. It covers the plain-weave, weft-faced construction and high-warp and low-warp looms, then surveys primitive tapestries (Coptic, Peruvian, Navajo, Chinese) and the development of picture tapestry from the Gothic period through the Renaissance, baroque and rococo. It describes the major manufactories (Arras, Brussels, Gobelins, Beauvais, Aubusson, Mortlake, Merton, and early American works), notable sets and designers, and principal collections, and ends with a bibliography. Two plates reproduce tapestries.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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