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What is a tapestry? According to wikepedia's definition -'it is a form of textile art
woven on a vertical loom.'
Actually, hand woven tapestries can be woven on a vertical loom (referred to as a haute lisse) or on a horizontal loom (a basse lisse). Today, both types of looms are still used in weaving a tapestry wall hanging. Regardless whether a tapestry is woven on a high or low warp loom, weaver is required to sit at a loom, painstakingly weaving one thread at a time.
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Weft threads are usually wool, wool/silk, cotton. In the past gold and silver was also used, intertwined with the wool threads giving the hand woven tapestry luster, brilliance and highlights.
Originally weavers wove their own simple designs. Later skilled artists created images known as cartoons (similar to paintings).
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The Apocalypse Tapestries located at the Chateau D'Angers in France
The Hunt of the Unicorn resident in The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art in New York
The Raphael 'Acts of the Apostles' tapestries in the Vatican
Tapestries date back to the 3rd century, with fragments found from ancient Greece.
There were different wall tapestry weaving centers throughout Europe. Each one flourished at a point in history, and then disappeared or moved to another country.
The most famous tapestry wall hanging centers were Arras (N France) during the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 16th century the towns of Oudenaarde (Flanders), Brussels and Enghein, and by the 17th and 18th century they became famous in France @ the Gobelins in Paris and in Italy. William Morris resurrected the art of weaving tapestries [url=http://www1.sdlvtc.cn/jgx/wygkcn_GuestBook.asp]peuterey o[/url] in the 19th century in England.
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