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tapestry. The basics tapestry is simply a form of weaving.
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It consists of two types of threats.
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The warp and the weft or wolf.
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The warp mix up the back of the tapestry and
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is eventually completely covered by the left.
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The left does the colored fabric that makes up the
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design. What separates tapestry from other types of weaving is
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that the weft threads only appear in the design where
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that color is needed and then is pulled back to
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be replaced by another colour in the middle ages.
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The weaver designed the tapestry during the 15 hundreds.
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However, famous artists would create the idea for the peace
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and the weaver would interpret it and how they saw
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fit, so the temperature would look different than how the
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painter had originally planned it to later.
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During the renaissance though, it shifted so that the tapestry
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had to be an exact copy of the painting.
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Large sections of the tapestry could be unraveled if the
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painter thought that it didn't follow his design closely enough
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and that principle still applies today.
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Yeah, the material depends on the location and money spent
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on the tapestry in europe, Both the warp and the
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weft were usually made from Wolf.
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However, silk linen are gold threads were also used occasionally
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to give the tapestry a different texture or to show
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the wealth of the buyer.
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In Egypt linen was the main material and chinese and
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japanese tapestries.
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Silk was usually used for both the warp and the
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weft. The medieval tapestries, the wool was dyed using ground
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up plants, insects or minerals.
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It was hard to keep the colours constant, however, because
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of all the different formulas that were used and how
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hard it was to keep temperature of a wood fire
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constant for the dia baths.
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Nowadays, chemical dyes are used.
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A tapestry goes through the most fading in the 1st
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100 years.
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So the newly dyed wool is put into a phenomenon
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machine that blasts it would like to agent 100 years
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after this, the wolf is ready to be used.
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There are two types of looms.
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The high warp in low warp.
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The high warp, also called vertical loom, is used more
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often on the high warp.
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The weaver sits behind the tapestry.
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It has to look through the threads into a mirror
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to see their progress.
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We were used as a bobbin.
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It wouldn't school that holds the color they're using.
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They use the bomb and to leave the colour between
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the warp threads and then use the pointed end to
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push down the weft thread so it is compact.
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The Global A factory is a french tapestry factory is
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the oldest one to still produce tapestries.
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There's only been one upgrade in the factory in the
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last 100 years.
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The weavers also don't use electronic lights at all because
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they alter the way the weaver seized the colours ever
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so slightly.
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It takes nearly eight years to become a master weaver
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and years more for a weaver to produce a single
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tapestry. The koala mostly keeps all of the tapestries it
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produces within the french government, but occasionally produces tapestries for
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other governments.
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This helps the weavers keep up their extreme standards.
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There are many different famous tap medieval tapestries, but one
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of the most famous is the day you tapestry.
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There used to be more, but many were destroyed, misused
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or burned down to get the gold that was woven
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into it.
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The Bayeux Tapestry is 230 ft long and shows the
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battle of Hastings.
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It starts with King Edward who is airless.
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However, both Harold and William laid claim to the front.
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So William and the Normans attacked Harold in the english.
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At one point, a character under the name of Harold
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is depicted with an arrow in his eye.
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However, historians aren't sure if this is actually supposed to
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be Harold and if it he is, they can't agree
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on whether the Euro was supposed to be there or
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if it was mistakenly added on later as part of
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the Restoration at the end of William and the Normans
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beating Harold, but experts are unsure if it is supposed
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to end this way or if William's coronation was supposed
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to be at the end.
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Well, the patron for the tapestry is unknown.
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It is thought to be the bishop, Odo, William's half
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brother, especially since his small role in the battle was
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exaggerated for all its popularity.
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It isn't an actual tapestry, it's an embroidery in tapestry.
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The colored threads actually become part of the fabric, so
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if you removed them, the whole thing would fall apart.
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An embroidery, though the color is added on top of
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the fabric, and removing the color would not affect the
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structure of the fabric at all.
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Also for all 230 ft of fabric, it only uses
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eight colors and two types of stitches, and that is
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my presentation on tapestry.