Sentence examples for tapestry workshop from inspiring English sources

The couple set up a tapestry workshop just north of Shanghai, in a community full of expert weavers.

It was woven by the Manufacture Pinton, a tapestry workshop in the area of Aubusson, a center of that ancient and exacting craft.

Of the 100 pieces in the Arras exposition, the range is vast--from Marie Antoinette's soup plates to Apollo in suggestive repose surrounded by pretty nymphs to the august Louis IV visiting the Gobelins tapestry workshop to a very seldom seen collection of Chinese bronze boxes.

There were already tapestry workshops, embroiderers and Savonnerie rug weavers in Paris, and glass and faience factories in the provinces.

In The Fable Of Arachne, in which a story from Ovid is all but hidden inside an everyday scene in the royal tapestry workshops, a spinning wheel races round so fast you can see through it.

(So is much of the output of the tapestry workshops of Brussels, Paris, and elsewhere, the art form having fallen out of favor in the eighteenth century. During the French Revolution, many tapestries were burned to ash for the gold or silver they contained).

The big scenes of pastoral fun and games he created as cartoons for Madrid's royal tapestry workshops bulge with acidic colours and bounce with weird physical configurations — there's an easy mastery of the international style of the joyous rococo but something else, too: an awkwardness, a roughness, an intimation of unreason.

In the Middle Ages, representational and other scenes commissioned by wealthy patrons and composed in tapestry workshops all over Europe decorated and insulated large structures (5 ).

Tapestry weaving workshop with Yukako Satone.

It houses the Cathedral School, which was closed yesterday because of the fire; a homeless shelter; social service programs; and a tapestry restoration workshop.

Her Collyer Brothers tendencies aside, Bourgeois no doubt found precarious comfort in the nest of this critical mass; she grew up surrounded by textiles in her parents' tapestry restoration workshop, and the act of sewing, she said, was her attempt to keep things together and make them whole.