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 . ts the thread of the warp by another hempen thread, forming the weft; and to dothat he advances, by means of the coats, the threads thatare behind. He passes the woof between the two rows ofthreads, and allows the hinder ones to resume their formerplace. In this manner each of the stitches is, as it were,linked together. This being done, he strikes the stitchesand hempen threads wit
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 . ts the thread of the warp by another hempen thread, forming the weft; and to dothat he advances, by means of the coats, the threads thatare behind. He passes the woof between the two rows ofthreads, and allows the hinder ones to resume their formerplace. In this manner each of the stitches is, as it were,linked together. This being done, he strikes the stitchesand hempen threads with a comb, and these latter are thusforced inside the fabric so as to be invisible. Then theclipping or shaving of the carpet takes place, which isnecessary from the unequal length of the ends of wool leftin cutting the loops of the pile. This operation requiresmuch precision on the part of the workman, and has animportant bearing on the beauty of the carpet. Theproductions of the Savonnerie being generally larger thanthe other pieces of Gobelins tapestry, the looms in whichthey are made are also larger, and allow of severalworkmen being engaged at the same time, therebyaccelerating the progress of the No. 4. Side from which the Tapesty artistworks. As regards the low-warp loom, which is used byweavers who produce their work on a commercial basis,I must refer the reader to a work treating on tapestrygenerally. The high-warp was only made at the Gobelins,and it is more suitable for the carrying out of imposingschemes like the pictures of great painters—Le Brun, forinstance, who designed on a very ambitious scale. Low-warp tapestry is done much more quickly thanhigh-warp, and is made in smaller pieces and joined together. It is curious that the best wools comefrom Kent, and these were used in the finest productions, especially at the Gobelins, and they are soused at the present time. At Beauvais, Aubusson, and Felletin, tapestry making was done on a morecommercial basis t
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