Tapestry Art, Designs

Tapestry Art: Tapestry Art is a variety of textile art, traditionally produced on a vertical loom. Although tapestry material can also be made on a floor loom…… Tapestry Art is a collection of two sets of interlaced threads, those moving parallel to the length called the warp and those threads parallel to the width called the weft…..

The warp threads are located under pressure on a loom and the weft thread is passed back and forth across part of the warps. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving method.

In tapestry method, all the warp threads are unseen in the concluded work, different fabric interlacing method where both the warp and the weft threads may be visible.

In tapestry weaving, weft yarns are in general alternating and it interlaces each colored weft back and forth in its pattern part. It is a simple weft-faced weave containing weft threads of various colors effort on more portions of warp to create the wanted design.

Most weavers use a naturally based warp yarn such as linen or cotton. The weft threads are generally wool or cotton material but sometimes it may include silk, gold, silver, or other substitutes.

Tapestries were also wrapped on the walls of palaces for lagging during winter season as well as for decorative presentation.

In the Middle era and renaissance, a prosperous tapestry pane woven with representative symbols, mottoes, coats of arms called a baldachin, covering of state or cloth of state was draped at the back and over a throne as a sign of influence.

The Cloth design of St Gereon: oldest European tapestry now also presented.

The Sample tapestry, woolen wall hanging: 3rd-2nd century BC.

The Hestia Tapestry: 6th century, Egypt, Dumbarton Oaks Colletion.

The Bayeux Tapestry, which represents the actions surrounding the Battle of Hastings is not a tapestry but is as substitute for embroidery. In June 2007, the tapestry was planned on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.

Bayeux is a small town in northern France within the region of lower Normandy, which is best known for Bayeux Tapestry…..

The Apocalypse Tapestry is the greatest tapestry in the world. It depicts prospect from the Book of Revelation.

The six-part piece The Lady and the Unicorn stored in Paris.

Four language and cultural tapestries engaged from the mid-fifteenth century represent men and women in fashionable outfit of the early fifteenth century pursue in a forest. The tapestries previously belonged to the Duke of Devonshire and are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Hunt of the Unicorn is a seven piece tapestry from 1495 to 1505 which was at present exhibited at The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, which was designed by Raphael from the year 1515-16 for which the Raphael Cartoons and the painted designs were, continue to exist.

The Wawel Tapestries of mid 16th century has a collection of 134 tapestries at the Wawel Castle in Poland which was presenting a variety of religious, natural, and royal themes. These famous tapestries were created in Arras. Those were collected by Polish Kings Sigismund I the Old and Sigismund II Augustus.