https://independent.academia.edu/HelenaLoermans
Author: Helena Loermans
Jornal Sudoeste
Getty Foundation News
The Art Newspaper
quote…“The first goal is to record all this knowledge, and preserve it,” says Loermans, who aims to create a database of weaving patterns and paintings. She hopes that researchers and conservators will start recording details about textile weaves in the canvases they treat and reach out if they find complex patterns.”
Flax-Linen, fibre of civilisation(s)
….thank you Catherine Dauriac and Alain Camilleri at Alliance for European Flax-Linen & Hemp for writing and publishing “Secrets of Old Masters” in this amazing book
…Lab O in the newsletter of The Department of Textile Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Thank you Janina Poskrobko, Cristina Balloffet Carr and the excellent team at the Department of Textile Conservation, for these contributions to the 50Th Anniversary Newsletter, I feel honoured!
@ Buddhist Art Gallery, Patan, Lalitpur, Kathmandu Nepal
…thank you very much Birat Raj Bajracharyafor inviting me to the Buddhist Art Gallery in Patan, Lalitpur, Kathmandu Nepal.
Thank you all for the beautiful meeting, sharing love for and knowledge about canvases.
Haptic&Hue ; podcast
Special interview this month in Friends of Haptic and Hue with @helenaloermans, the woman who realised that many of the Old Masters painted onto complex hand woven linen. She has dedicated her time to deciphering the different weaves and researching the canvases. Listen to the secrets she has discovered in The Weave Beneath – The Canvases of the Old Masters.
Please click on the image to listen to the podcast…
Conserving Canvas, Getty Publications…
Thank you so much Cynthia Schwarz Ian MCClure and Jim Coddington for such a brilliant open source publication.
Thank you João Mariano for the excellent capture of the textiles
See the open source publication here https://gty.art/43vfX4V
…see the full paper with a click on the picture below :
-Piero di Cosimo
painted two of his works on a canvas with a woven pattern, 1490
In the xray of one of the paintings we find a horizontal seam in the canvas.
Many thanks to the conservator of the Wadsworth Atheneum for sharing the high resolution xray image.
In the photograph of the other painting, found on the website of the National Gallery of Canada, we can see a horizontal seam.
Both marked with a red line.
I am very curious to know if the pattern of both canvases are the same and I hope to get access to the xray of “An Allegory of Civilization”
Another interesting detail in both paintings is the pattern of the scarfs…