Talk:Tapestry

Tapestry Other forms of needlework called "tapestry"

The kilim and Navajo blanket can be called true tapestry given that they are weft-faced weavings, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work. That pillow has caused some trouble. I am not even sure one can tell what kind of needlework it is from the photo. I would think it either canvas work or machine jacquard fabric. I left the Bayeux Tapestry and The New World Tapestry Famous tapestries list, but add a note saying they are Tapestries. I also added the “Tapestry and Embroidery” section to try and clear up confusion on the subject. On subject I am not totally sure of is whether fabric made on jacquard looms is regarded as Tapestry, I think yes, but am not totally sure. - Doktor Faustus 2 July 2007

Fabric made on Jacquard looms is called tapestry by the industry, but differs from tru tapestry in that all of the weft threads reach from selvage to selvage, rather than starting and stopping where the color is needed.

The problem with the pillow is that needlepoint is called "tapisserie" in French, and the term "tapestry" is used (especially in the UK, I think) to mean needlepoint. Dictionaries support this expanded usage, as they do using tapestry to mean loosely any textile wall hanging. - PKM 00:26, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me that the crucial difference here is between two types of tapestry -- continuous weft-faced weaving and discontinuous weft-faced weaving -- not "true" tapestry and "false" tapestry (or whatever the opposite of "true" tapestry might be). Many purists in the textile industry are loath to call any tapestry woven via computerised Jacquard loom a "true tapestry" simply because it was not woven on a hand loom, even though the actual construction of the textile itself clearly qualifies it as a tapestry. Noel_vs_liam 14 April, 2009 —Preceding undated comment added 23:12, 14 April 2009 (UTC).

Plagiarism in Jacquard tapestries, colour and the human eye section

Approximately the last half of this section is directly copied from the description of Chuck Close's Self-Portrait/Color on the Magnolia Editions website: http://www.magnoliaeditions.com/artworks/self-portraitcolor/ It seems that this piece of text (beginning after "However" with "in Jacquard weaving..." at the end of the first paragraph) should either be inset as a lengthy quote or paraphrased before being cited. I don't feel that I know enough about tapestry or Wikipedia editing to make that decision. Thoughts? Chap0120 (talk) 15:31, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

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Notes

• The Last Supper, ca. 1525–28, Designed by Bernard van Orley Netherlandish MET Johnbod (talk) 17:50, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Bayeux Tapestry /embroidery

We should not use nor give this stiched tapestry as example because it is not woven, see article or de:Bildwirkerei--Oursana (talk) 21:53, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Have you read the article, dude? Johnbod (talk) 21:58, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Globalize

This article is on European tapestry. It omits Kesi (tapestry), Chilkat weaving, etc. I suggest moving it to European tapestry, and writing a new article. HLHJ (talk) 01:22, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

See Tapestry#Outside_Europe. Kesi is not normally referred to as tapestry, but as kesi, and of course it has its own article. Kesi actually uses a tapestry weave, which Chilkat weaving and countless other types around the world don't seem to do. So no. Johnbod (talk) 03:58, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

The earliest pieces at the start of the history section aren't European either. Johnbod (talk) 04:05, 9 March 2023 (UTC)