Tapestry; Face of Mary

The idea of this tapestry is to test a metal threads and silk threads with wool in tapestry.

Cartoon

     

Origin of the cartoon is a sector of tapestry of The Virgin, Saint Anne and the Infant Christ, woven ca.1515 probably Brussels.

Size 105 x 105 cm.

Wool, silk, and gilt-metal-wrapped thread.

Warp        Cotton, Fishermans twine, 29 warps per 5 cm. Metal thread needs a little bigger space between warps than wool. In my last work I used 32 warps per 5 cm.

Weft        Wool 125 tex x2, Nm 8/2 (pirkkalanka) Wool 105 tex for face Silk-cotton 50%-50% 85 tex Nm 12/3 Metal thread, Kreinik Japan size 16

Phases of work Cartoon design and printing. 2008 October

2008 December 13.

Work done without knots in the upper end.

I lost 5 mm from the width in 25 cm. Width decreases from 29-28.5 mm.

I deside to make a cushion from the weaving.

I sew the work in to the linen canvas and filled the cushion.

It is small for the cushion, but it is very medieval method to use the weaving.