Gobelin è un'opera d'arte (famosa o meno) trasposta su tela.
La tela è composta da migliaia di punti attraverso quali i fili di diversi colori passano per comporre
l'immagine finale. Lavorare su un gobelin può durare da alcune settimane a
diversi anni, a seconda delle dimensioni.
Il kit (il set) contiene: tela, simboli grafici, filo
colorato e immagine a colori.
La dimensione varia.
1 cm ² = 100 punti. Per ogni gobelin, la sua dimensione è indicata come
larghezza x altezza. Esempio:.
20 x 23 Dimensioni 20 × 23 = 460 centimetri ² / 460 centimetri ² = 46 000
punti.
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The Gobelin as an art work was founded as a
dye works in the middle of 15th century, by Jean Gobelin. A tapestry works
started by two Flemish weavers, Marc de Comans and Françis de la Planche,
called to France by Henri IV in1601, was later added. In 1662, Louis XIV
purchased the Tapestries manufactory and there Colbert united all the royal
craftsmen, creating a royal and furniture works. The Tapestries was temporarily
closed from 1694 to 1697, after which the works specialized in gobelin. The
factory has always been noted for excellence of materials, dyes, and
workmanship; it originated the exquisite its blue.
Very famous
tapestries from its looms include a set based on copies of Raphael's frescoes
in the Vatican and 14 great pieces commemorating the achievements of Louis XIV.
Today, we
have milions and millions of gobelin art users and collector around the Globe
in many many homes and offices.
Gobelins
are manufacturing in one of three basic techniques
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Original pieces are manually sewing on sewing bench/frame;
The second
method is the Silk-Screening or Serigraph process. This is a printing process
speedy and cheap.
The third
method is Jacquard weaving. This is a machine process which reduces much the
production time and the cost.
These
gobelins from gallery are manually sewing after famous paintings: landscapes,
portraits, floral motifs or religious pictures. It is a long involved process
taking many months in production, depend by dimensions and difficulty to the
original picture.
