The Vendramin Family (1543-47)
National Gallery London


Titian painted The Vendramin Family (1543-47) on a canvas with a pattern

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’. “

photo João Mariano
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High resolution images are published on the National Gallery’s webpage and it was possible to deciphere the pattern from there




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The weave draft, generated in Weavelt Pro Mac, a software developed to interface with computer aided handlooms

The Vendramin Family
Titian
weave draft of the support canvas
one repeat
94 warp ends
94 weft picks
10 shafts
10 threadles
thread count per cm,
published information:
warp: 23
weft: 18
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On this AVL Compu Dobby loom, connected to a Mac Plus device, I have woven the reconstruction of the canvas in linen.


photo João Mariano