Anatomy of a Tapestry

Anatomy of a Tapestry
Author: Jean Pierre Larochette
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Tapestry
ISBN: 9780764359330

Jean Pierre Larochette is a renowned top-level artist, making this opportunity to learn from him a treasure for all levels of weavers.

The Power of Textiles

The Power of Textiles
Author: Katherine Anne Wilson
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Gobelin tapestry
ISBN: 9782503533933

Textiles were used as markers of distinction throughout the Middle Ages and their production was of great economic importance to emerging and established polities. This book explores tapestry in one of the greatest textile producing regions, the Burgundian Dominions, c.1363-1477. It uses documentary evidence to reconstruct and analyse the production, manufacture, and use of tapestry. It begins by identifying the suppliers of tapestry to the dukes of Burgundy and their ability to spin webs between city and court. It proceeds by considering the forms of tapestry and their functions for urban and courtly consumers. It then observes the ways in which tapestry constructed social relations as part of gift-giving strategies. It concludes by exploring what the re-use, repair, and remaking of tapestry reveals about its value to urban and courtly consumers. By taking an object-centred approach through documentary sources, this book emphasises that the particular characteristics of tapestry shaped the strategies of those who supplied it and the ways it performed and constructed social relations. Thus, the book offers a contribution to the historical understanding of textiles as objects that contributed to the projection of social status and the cultural construction of political authority in the Burgundian polity.

Figured Tapestry

Figured Tapestry
Author: Philip Scranton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2002-08-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521521369

Figured Tapestry is a study of industrial maturity and decline, focused on the Philadelphia textile trades from the era of the Knights of Labor through World War II. Unlike the bulk fabric enterprises of New England and the South, Quaker City textile firms were 'flexible specialists,' combining skilled labor, versatile technologies, and quick responsiveness to demand shifts to create a vast array of seasonal goods. Scranton assesses the significance and limits of industrial versatility, owner-operated businesses, craft labor and its organizations, and the agglomeration of specialist mills in urban districts. An interdisciplinary blend of business, labor, urban, and economic history, industrial geography, and the history of technology, Figured Tapestry illuminates the hidden world of batch production, the 'other side' of American industrialization, and highlights both the benefits and the hazards of flexibility, a matter of moment to those who seek to reorient current manufacturing away from the rigidities of mass production.

Tapestry Weaving

Tapestry Weaving
Author: Joanne Soroka
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2015-05-31
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1785000659

Tapestries were among the most prestigious of art forms, created for the mightiest in the land and valued for centuries. Despite its illustrious history, tapestry weaving is actually a simple technique that requires little equipment or expenditure, and can be done anywhere. Written by a prominent tapestry weaver, this lavishly illustrated book gently leads you through the whole process with detailed diagrams and exciting work by contemporary weavers. It will be useful to the absolute beginner, but experienced weavers will also find new ideas and techniques to tempt and inspire them. The book includes a step-by-step guide to setting up a small frame loom and starting to weave; basic and more advanced techniques, and how to create shapes and textures; advice on taking your work into the third dimension, whether bas relief or fully sculptural; information on the qualities of different materials and how they can be used to create the effects you want; and design ideas for tapestry and how to follow supplied designs. This will be an essential source book for experienced and novice weavers, and is beautifully illustrated with 190 colour illustrations and diagrams.

The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things
Author: Tommye Scanlin
Publisher: University of North Georgia
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781940771724

The Nature of Things weaves together a life full of happiness and sorrow. In these fourteen collected essays, Tommye McClure Scanlin reflects on her artistic journey and how crafting and life are interwoven, two threads that comprise a larger picture. Readers will find themselves lost in Scanlin's full-color tapestries and comforting writing style as they explore the natural fields and woods of southern Appalachia. A final part of the book gives an overview of tapestry weaving basics with diagrams and descriptions for setting up a simple pipe loom and weaving a small tapestry sampler. Glossary, simple pipe loom illustrations, and a resource list are included for reference.

Decorative Arts

Decorative Arts
Author: Charissa Bremer-David
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1993-09-09
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0892362219

This volume includes concise, illustrated entries on the more than 450 examples of furniture, porcelain, and silver from the Museum's collection. New to this expanded edition are sections devoted to maiolica and glass. An index of previous owners and updated bibliographies are of particular help to the scholar.

Arras Hanging

Arras Hanging
Author: Rebecca Olson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611494699

Arras Hanging: The Textile That Determined Early Modern Literature and Drama reveals that early modern writers aspired to produce narratives that replicated the structure and aesthetic of high-quality Renaissance tapestries in order to appeal to their audiences’ desire for a “hands-on” and idiosyncratic narrative experience.

The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries

The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries
Author: Institut royal du patrimoine artistique (Belgium)
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 143
Release: 1990-01-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892361549

Contributors discuss current research, new findings, and specific problems, innovations, methods, and materials.

Tapestry Conservation

Tapestry Conservation
Author: Frances Lennard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2006
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0750661844

Tapestry Conservation: Principles and Practice explores current practice and recent research in tapestry conservation, promoting awareness of recent developments among conservators and custodians of tapestries. The book facilitates more informed conservation practice and decision-making, and helps custodians to select the most appropriate method of intervention.

Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art

Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art
Author: Phaidon Editors
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-04-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780714876610

A global survey of more than 100 artists, chosen by art-world professionals for their work with threads, stitching, and textiles Celebrating tapestry, embroidery, stitching, textiles, knitting, and knotting as used by visual artists worldwide, Vitamin T is the latest in the celebrated series in which leading curators, critics, and art professionals nominate living artists for inclusion. As boundaries between art and craft have blurred, artists have increasingly embraced these materials and methods, with the resulting works being coveted by collectors and exhibited in museums worldwide. Vitamin T is a vibrant and incredibly timely survey – the first of its kind.