index:
-“Venus and Adonis“
-“The Vendramin Family“
–The tablecloth painted in “The Supper at Emmaus“
–A textile in the Victoria & Albert Museum from 1400-1500
“Venus and Adonis”
…analyses of the x-ray image of the painting revealed that this pattern is woven on an M W threading and is therefore not an “unusual chevron twill weave or a wide herringbone but with little zigzag at the end of the ‘spine’ as published in the National Gallery Technical Bulletin Volume 36…
“Venus and Adonis” NG34 (1540), a painting in The National Gallery in London, atributed to Titian workshop
National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 36
“The Vendramin Family“
(not to scale)
The painting is located in The National Gallery in London
The story:
It started with finding the extended research on Titian’spaintings, published on the National Gallery’s webpage, where is written… ‘the painting is executed on a canvas with a ‘point twill’ weave, often, althouhg not strictly correctly, called ‘a damask’. ‘
high resolution images are published on the National Gallery’s webpage
The high quality allowed me to decipher the pattern
I could find the repeat
computer generated in Weavelt, a handweaving design software program.
handwoven reconstruction of the original canvas
The tablecloth in “The Supper at Emmaus“
photograph courtesy of Centre de Recherche e de Restauration des Musées de France https://c2rmf.fr
photograph courtesy of the Centre de Recherche e de Restauration des Musées de France https://c2rmf.fr
A textile in the V&A archives
A textile dated 1400-1500 (made) from the V&A archives
