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n.- Formerly used for figure weaving.

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  • Le Blon freely admitted that his invention was a variation on brocade weaving; it involved use of a drawloom to create the image.
  • The drawloom mechanism that Le Blon used to make his tapestries could accommodate a large number of extra wefts, the yarns that created the pattern.
  • The visual result of this technical problem, as much as the size limitations imposed by the drawloom and the same inadequate financing and lack of consumer demand that...
  • The full spectrum of weaving techniques is also represented in the collection, from simple plain weave to jacquard and complex drawloom woven pattern.
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