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  2. Tapestry - Wikipedia

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    In tapestry weaving, weft yarns are typically discontinuous (unlike brocade); the artisan interlaces each coloured weft back and forth in its own small pattern area. It is a plain weft-faced weave having weft threads of different colours worked over portions of the warp to form the design. [2]

  3. Kesi (tapestry) - Wikipedia

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    Kesi (simplified Chinese: 缂丝; traditional Chinese: 緙絲; pinyin: kèsī) is a technique in Chinese silk tapestry. It is admired for its lightness and clarity of pattern. At first, this technique was chiefly used to protect scrolls containing paintings. It was also employed as a support for paintings, later becoming an esteemed art form.

  4. Archie Brennan (weaver) - Wikipedia

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    Founded in traditional techniques of tapestry weaving, Brennan's practice was reflective as well as a forward looking and progressive. [8] The Victoria & Albert Museum cites Brennan as being “credited with bringing about a renaissance in tapestry weaving and design in Britain.”, [12] and in 2019 he was described as "possibly the greatest Scottish Pop artist you have never heard of". [13]

  5. Soumak - Wikipedia

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    The technique of making a soumak involves wrapping wefts over a certain number of warps (usually 4) before drawing them back under the last two warps. The process is repeated from selvedge to selvedge. The wefts are discontinuous; the weaver selects coloured threads in turn, and wraps each within the area which is to have that particular colour.

  6. Swivel weave - Wikipedia

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    Swivel weaving is a decorative technique that involves producing intricate designs on other weaves, such as a basic plain weave structure [3] or satin. [1] In swivel weaving, the weft yarns are used to create patterns on the fabric.

  7. Loom - Wikipedia

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    In the center, devices for performing the motions of weaving. Weaving a tapestry on a vertical loom in Konya, Turkey A Turkish carpet loom showing warp threads wrapped around the warp beam, above, and the fell being wrapped onto the cloth beam below. A simple handheld frame loom. Weaving is done on two sets of threads or yarns, which cross one ...

  8. Jean Lurçat - Wikipedia

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    The relationship of painting to tapestry in fact began in 1476 where the first counts of tapestry weaving were in Belgium, and painters had ostracized weavers for creating their own cartoons. [2] Thus indicating that tapestries were originally made in the likeness of paintings, and is where traditional techniques were formed. [2]

  9. Alice Adams (artist) - Wikipedia

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    Following graduation, she went to Aubusson, France to study tapestry weaving and design at L'Ecole Nationale d'Art Decoratif. Except for two years spent in France, Adams has lived in New York City, traveling for collaboration and consultation on public art projects in the United States and abroad. There have been several stages in her eclectic ...

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