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...that
John Henry Dearle
(example of work pictured)
was an apprentice
tapestry
weaver to
Pre-Raphaelite
artist and craftsman
William Morris
who rose to become
Morris & Co.
's chief designer and Art Director after Morris's death?
...that no piece of
goldwork embroidery
has ever actually used pure
gold
?
...that
double cloth
or
double-woven cloth
is a type of
weaving
used in
Pre-Columbian
Peru
and
Victorian
furnishing
textiles
in which two or more sets of
warps
and one or more sets of
weft
or filling
yarns
are interconnected to form a two-layered cloth?
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