Painted tapestry and its application to interior decoration : practical lessons in tapestry painting with liquid colour (1879)
Godon, Julien, Lechertier, Barbe, & Co. List of colours and materials for tapestry painting, oil painting, &c. 1879 · London : Lechertier, Barbe, and Co. · leaf 77
be accumulated, but in the case of a design whose dimensions do not agree with any of them one larger than the canvas is selected and the canvas is stretched upon it in the following manner. Let A E F G (fig. 2) represent a piece of canvas and a b c d a stretcher of larger size ; two sides of the… … which is fastened at b and with a packing needle, the canvas is corded to the uncovered sides of the stretcher (at intervals of about two inches), the canvas being strained by drawing the twine at each loop, taking care, as before explained, that the strands c f of the edge of the canvas are…
Textile painting · Tapestry
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