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In Antique Tapestries:
The word "tapestry" is very loosely used in the Decorating trade, but as correctly used it refers only to a hand-woven fabric. The term "real tapestry" is now expressly reserved to designate hand weaving.
Tapestries are made both in all-over patterns and in pictorial subjects. Pictorial tapestries are of prime importance as Wall hangings, but are sometimes cut into smaller pieces for upholstery coverings or for small panels. The design is the essential element of esthetic value in a tapestry; materials and workmanship, while important, are secondary to the design. The chief material used in tapestries is wool, though most modern tapestries have cotton warp threads. In antique tapestries silk was sometimes used in parts, and gold and silver threads were occasionally added to give greater brilliancy.Handmade Tapestries The word "tapestry" is very loosely used in the Decorating trade, but as correctly used it refers only to a hand-woven fabric. The term "real tapestry" is now expressly reserved to designate hand weaving. Tapestries are made both in all-over patterns and in pictorial subjects. Pictorial tapestries are of prime importance as Wall hangings, but are sometimes cut into smaller pieces for upholstery coverings or for small panels. The design is the essential element of esthetic value in a tapestry; materials and workmanship, while important, are secondary to the design. The chief material used in tapestries is wool, though most modern tapestries have cotton warp threads. In antique tapestries silk was someŽtimes used in parts, and gold and silver threads were occasionally added to give greater brilliancy. Tapestry is distinctly a rep weave, and the warp threads of the fabric are strongly accented, a feature that distinguishes it from cross-stitch needlework. In a very fine tapestry, the warp threads are spaced about 24 to the inch, while in the coarser grades there may be as few as 8. The weft threads are woven between and around the warp threads, and are pushed together with a comb, so that the warp is completely hidden; they do not run across the fabric, but are used only so long as their particular color is needed m the pattern; they are then tied in a knot and their ends hang loosely at the rear. The tapestry is reversible if the loose ends are cut off.
See Also Antique Stores:
In the 1960's, there were about 50,000 retail drug antique stores in the United States. Annually these drug antique stores did a total business amounting to over $8 billion. Drug antique stores, apothecaries, or pharmacies as they are commonly called in the United States (but in England are chemist shops), engage in what is commonly called retail business. Such antique stores fill prescriptions which are orders by physicians for medicine for patients. In addition, they usually, but not always, sell additional items, a procedure that provides more of a service than meets health needs. In fact, some drug antique stores have become almost general antique stores.In the United States of these organizations are in the food and fields.Also rather common among local is are department antique stores, clothing antique stores, Furniture and appliance establishments, gasoline serŽvice stations, and liquor antique stores. Chains are classified as sectional if their antique stores are located in some one major part of the counŽtry, such as New England. Many of these chains are large, and often they are at least as well known within their area of operation as are some still larger organizations.
On The Other Hand See From Antique Sculpture:
Sculpture of the Late Renaissance in Italy folŽlowed two paths : one which exaggerated MichelŽangelo's use of pronounced muscles, twisting poses and elongated figures; and the other which more clearly was inspired directly by the from antique sculpture. The Michelangelesque manner was used mostly for large works: architectural sculpture, fountains, public monuments and tombs. The classicizing tendency was pronounced in garden sculpture and bronze statuettes. Important sculptors of the period venuto Cellini, famous as a goldsmith (1500-1571), Bartolommeo Ammanati (1511-1592), the ItalianŽized Fleming, Giovanni da Bologna (Jean Boulogne, known as Giambologna, 1529P-1608), and the VeneŽtian, Alessandro Vittoria (1524-1608).In Atlanta are the High Museum of Art (1926), in which paintings, sculpture, and from antique sculpture Furniture are exhibited; and Rhodes Memorial Hall, which contains the documents and historical records of the state Department of Archives and
