WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1972 *

* Today's great. revival of tapestry work and other needle: crafts shows a lively Ine
terest in'sacred subjects, just as many of the famous tapestries of the past were devout

. “treatments of Biblical themes,. includ
. Tapestry ‘work itself has a long and fascinatin

ng the: Nativity an and, the Adoration of the Magl.:

ty, as modern weavers and

. embrolderers are discovering, It is defined as a han Risto patterned fabric in. which .
‘the:-weaver shapes.one area, of color at'a time. Basically a slmple technique,’ w! ,

. can be accomp shed. even on primitive Jooms, such ‘weaving has

; early antiquity.

een done ever since

‘The oldest tapestry, work mown: ‘to’ us ig ‘Beyntian, where some of the cloth. found 7

in tombs was -
and adapted from t

atterned with lotus flowers and hierogly
- would trace it rough pre-Christian times to the fine

' East, where tapestries were made -by the Chinese and Japanesé, But cur own tradi- ©
tion fs ‘derived from. the European, which | has. produced: such exquisite. work © as: the

- exampics, renroduced here.

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| Yule Plants

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. matured. For them, the tem-
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me watering.

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8 “dies, says legend.

+. Although the ‘most dramatic examples are large pictoriat wall hangings, /

me has been used for many other. purposes, such as covers, cushions, and upholstery ue

san Just. ag today’ 3 craftsmen make chair ‘covers in needlepoint.: wt

: : eS - Wool is:the most frequently: used fiber though details...
> are often done-with silk or even gold or sil

‘tapestries haye been produced ‘entirely in silk, .

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Though. ‘they: blaze. with.

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Large pictorial: tapestries were generally madé bj
team of weavers, the most ski

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‘Raphast: Changed Technique

With the Renaissance, however, the technique changed ;
. com letely, when the great painter Ra

es in the manner of Renaissance fresco painting,

. posing the painter's laws on the woven designs. Rap lae!’s
designs were niuch admired and repeatediy re-woven dur- -
_iag the 16th and 17th centuries, most often at the great.
- workshops in Brussels and other Flemish cities. Other

worksho ops were in Italy and France, later.iIn Germany,
Denmark, and Sweden, and finally in, "England; ,

The weaving of tapestries continued to be.a flourishing

industry . throughout the 17th. Century, with new designs

by the preat painter Rubens, for the Flemish’ workshops. ae - a,
ndustry was established in France, under Henry |:

A new
IV, and in 1662 the royal factory of. the Gobelins was
formed — one of

“The lerald, Christmas Supplement

‘ThemesFrom Tapestry Era |

hics. A’ comprehensive history . \
hangings made in Byzantium, ...
ere by Islamic artists — plus: the: haraliel development in the Far:. ”

tapestry a

ful of :whom: specla ad fe
in faces. They worked from a full size design, or cartoon, -
.maede by a professional designer, which was traced in out- :
- Une on the warp or vertical threads. te .
Tapestries used as wall hangings found 2 wide acce t-
: ance in mediaeval Europe —- they gave warmth and color’
- to the stark stone walls of castles and ather interiors, and
-they werea type of furnishing easily movable. from. one

During the 18th Century, Beropean taste moved towards.

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iration In ta

in:
. te painters and

: a lighter and More delicate style‘of decoration. Ta es,
began to lose favor, and the art:reached a low point in the:
9th Century. An exception, was a-revival in‘ the 1880's by

gland, who returned to Snediaeval.
P poets dia design, just as: the _pre~Raphael-
in. art and. ‘poetry.

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hael designed tap- .

; May the sweet Joys
_ of Christmas fill the hearts”
‘of you: and’ “yours, how and evermore.:

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