An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . ^> 13> 3 u rtJZo E O. ISl a B a Q a! jzU a 183 Louis XIV. PRIEU DIEU AND CARVING. Last Half 17th Century to the Gobelins, of which hewas the director from 1850to i860. I will, however,mention some of the chiefpoints. Tapestry, like all wovenfabrics, is composed of awarp and a woof, but thewoof alone appears on boththe wrong and the rightside, because it must entirelycover the
An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . ^> 13> 3 u rtJZo E O. ISl a B a Q a! jzU a 183 Louis XIV. PRIEU DIEU AND CARVING. Last Half 17th Century to the Gobelins, of which hewas the director from 1850to i860. I will, however,mention some of the chiefpoints. Tapestry, like all wovenfabrics, is composed of awarp and a woof, but thewoof alone appears on boththe wrong and the rightside, because it must entirelycover the warp. In thehigh-warp looms the warpis composed of worsted,cotton, or silk threads, offour or five yarns twistedtogether, and it must beperfectly smooth. Whenstretched upon the rollersthe workman divides it intoleaves, which are kept apartby a thread passed altern-ately between the threadsof the warp (see a, No. 2,page 189) and by a glasstube, two or two and a halfcentimetres in diameter,called the baton de croisure(see b, No. 2). In conse-quence of this separationhalf the threads of the warpare brought in front, whilethe other half fall behind. To each thread of the leaf, at the height of the workmanshand, is attached a bit of fine c
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