The Vendramin Family
The tablecloth painted in The Supper at Emmaus
A textile in the Victoria & Albert Museum from 1400-1500
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
