Painted tapestry and its application to interior decoration : practical lessons in tapestry painting with liquid colour (1879)
Godon, Julien · London : Lechertier, Barbe, and Co., 60 Regent Street · leaf 73
nvas, tostrain it so that the strands or ribs are kept, straight andparallel to the edges of the stretcher. This is easily managed E 50 PAINTED TAPESTRY as follows: Let a b c d (fig. 1) represent the stretcher.After having pinned the canvas at the corners and middle,the stretcher is raised up in… … ened by pulling from a b, and that corner is permanentlyfastened. The corner c is next tightened by a pull fromc to b so as to get the same number of strands or ribsbetween c and B as there are between A and D ; the side c i>is nailed, keeping the rib parallel to the edge ; and so on withthe…
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