Show fie ab 7 fa U X G ho oc fj ebu by liddia andia le baron walker 0 an antique coat of arnn arms tapestry over a quaint oaken chest in a hall are unexcelled for tapestries fascinating wall decorations they vie with rare paintings which alone are their peers in fact some of the finest painters made designs for tapestries leonardo da vinci raphael michel angelo among the very early artists and rubens van dyke and durer also made the drawings or cartoons as they are called for famous tapestries tapestries are considered textiles but the weaving wearing Is a distinct and different type from regular weaving even hand band weaving wearing as it Is known today it Is of course woven by hand but the colors are either introduced on tiny separate bobbins or by means of a sort of threaded needle passed over under and about warp threads whichever way the colors ore are introduced by ban hand they are woven into the gorgeous pictorial patterns in the same way an embroidered tapestry it Is interesting to note that one of the most famous of all tapestries Is not actually a tapestry in the strictest sense but Is an embroidered picture it was queen mathilda of england who told the story of her famous husband william the conquerors exploits not with her pen but with her needle there are people ships ant animals trees earth and sea all brou wrought in colors which today are arc a feast to the eye just to look upon the foundation Is fine linen unornamented except in the embroidered portions which tell the story which Is real history unlike other tapestries which are of large proportions the linen of the badeaux tapestry Is only some 21 inches wide while its width Is slight its length makes up for it being beang feet the background Is a wonderful bit of weaving the embroidery Is the most stupendous undertaking of all ages and shows marvelously against the unworked foundation it Is this embroidered tapestry which lends sanction to the thought of modern tapestry embroideries these can be of rare beauty provided the worker has the ingenuity to conceive of handsome pictorial effects worthy of careful embroidery and then uses embroidery brol dery materials of artistic tones and exquisite color harmonies today the term tapestries la Is not so inclusive but signifies the hand woven pictorial textiles some of which are modern in the same way as are the famous antique ones wall hangings hannings Hang ings wall hangings hannings hang ings and embroidered wall pictures are names given to the scenic textiles at the present time of these there are beautiful examples in modern work the background remains minus the design alone being embroidered women who want wall hangings hannings hang ings can have them at small cost by working them themselves the pictures and the colors and the embroidery must all be excellent for them to be worthy their purpose a bell syndicate ben ice |