Usually large sizes looms have been used to weave tapestries on. Various types of threads have been used to make laces like gold, silk and silver threads weaving various pictures of subjects including those of the peasant scenes after Teniers, Biblical history, mythology, etc.
Tapestries have been used as wall hangings but unlike needlework, it was woven on a loom. It was also made in proportions much larger than would normally be used in hand-stitched embroidery; tapestry panels ranging from ten or twelve feet in height and twenty feet long are quite common. The primary medium was wool, but in special cases silk was also used. In some of the finest works the use of gold and silver can be seen.
The main center of tapestry weaving from the year 1500 has been Brussels. But the outputs throughout the years have greatly varied in quality. Biblical and Roman history, peasant, mythology and scenes after Teniers were some of the subjects.
Most seventeenth-and eighteenth-century works are let down by the fact that over the years a murky brownish image has faded their red dyes. Brussels tapestries usually have a mark with a shield with the letter B on either side....
To view and download this full PLR article, you must be logged in. Registration is completely free. Once you create your account, you will be able to browse, search & downlod from our PLR articles database of over "1,57,897+" on 1,000's of niches and 200+ categories without paying a penny. Click here to signup...
