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  2. Muriel Nezhnie Helfman - Wikipedia

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    According to Sharon Marcus, an educator, artist and critic regarding contemporary tapestry, Nezhnie was ahead of her time: "many of the technical innovations that contemporary artists are interested in today were utilized abundantly by Nezhnie, in particular shaped weaving and contrast of texture and weave structure."

  3. Tapestry - Wikipedia

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    Weaving a small tapestry on a high-warp loom, 2022, New Zealand One of the tapestries in the series The Hunt of the Unicorn: The Unicorn is Found, circa 1495–1505, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Normally it is used to create images rather than ...

  4. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    They are a flat tapestry-woven textile produced in a fashion similar to kilims of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, but with some notable differences. In Navajo weaving, the slit weave technique common in kilims is not used, and the warp is one continuous length of yarn, not extending beyond the weaving as fringe.

  5. Backstitch - Wikipedia

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    Backstitch or back stitch and its variants stem stitch, outline stitch and split stitch are a class of embroidery and sewing stitches in which individual stitches are made backward to the general direction of sewing. In embroidery, these stitches form lines and are most often used to outline shapes and to add fine detail to an embroidered picture.

  6. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Chilkat weaving and Ravenstail weaving are regarded as some of the most difficult weaving techniques in the world. A single Chilkat blanket can take an entire year to weave. In both techniques, dog, mountain goat, or sheep wool and shredded cedar bark are combined to create textiles featuring curvilinear formline designs.

  7. William Morris textile designs - Wikipedia

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    As to colours for carpets, he wrote in his essay on textiles; "The soft gradations of tint to which Tapestry lends itself are unfit for Carpet-weaving; beauty and variety of colour must be obtained bh harmonious juxtaposition of tints, bounded by judiciously chosen outlines, and the pattern should lie absolutely flat on the ground.

  8. Soumak - Wikipedia

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    Soumak is a type of flat weave, somewhat resembling kilim, but with a stronger and thicker weave, a smooth front face and a ragged back, where kilim is smooth on both sides. Soumak lacks the slits characteristic of kilim, as it is usually woven with supplementary weft threads as continuous supports.

  9. Kesi (tapestry) - Wikipedia

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    It is a tapestry weave, typically using silk on a small scale compared to European wall hangings. Clothing for the court was one of the primary uses. The density of knots is usually very high, with a gown of the best quality perhaps involving as much work as a much larger European tapestry.

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