Искусства и ремесла Средневековья

Tapestry

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he brings back to the гight; his left hand, then, seizing hold of the warp, brings the back threads to the front, while the гight hand thrusts the spindle back to thc point ,vheпce it started." \Vhen а ncw соlош is to Ье introdнced, the artist takes а ne\v shuttle. Не fastens his thread on the ,vrong side of the tapestry (t. he side on which he works) and repeat,s the pгocess jнst described on the st1·ings stretched up апd do,Yn before him, Iike l1arp strings; the ,vшk is commenced at tl1e Io,ver рагt, апd \\'orked up,vaгds, so that, when this st1·ictly " hand \\'eaviпg " is accomplished, it шау Ье crowded do,vп iпto place Ьу means of а kind of ivo1·y comb, so adjнsted that the tecth fit bctween the ,Уагр thгeads. In tapestry weaving, the warp could Ье of any inferioг Ьнt strong tl1read, for, Ьу the natшe of thc work, only the ,voof was visiЫe, the warp being quite hiddcп and iпco1·porated iпto tl1e texture tшdег the close lying stitches which шеt and dove-tailed оvег it. The woгker on а low Ioom does not see the right side of the work at all, unless he lifts the loom, which is а diffi­ cult undertaking. On а high loom, it is only 11ecessa1·y for the worker to go around to the front in order to see exactly what he is doing. The design is put below the work, howeveг, in а low loom, and t. he work is thus practically traced as the tapestry p1·oceeds. On account of the limitations of the human arm in гeaching, the low warp tapestry 1·equires more seams than does that made on the "haute lisse" loom, the pieces being individually sшalleг. One whole division