Centuries ago, tapestries were done by hand. It sometimes
took years to finish and the final product is something to behold.
Unfortunately, they don’t make tapestries like they used to so which is better,
tapestries made by man or machine?
Of course there are pros and cons with both techniques. If
this was done by hand, it will take time to produce one and it will be very
challenging to make an exact copy. The factors which affect the production
process include amount of detail and the fineness or coarseness of the sett.
The sett is the vertical threads through which colored yarns
are interwoven. The sett for most tapestries uses about 4 to 8 threads which is
an improvement from the past as this sometimes takes more than 20 threads.
What a craftsman does by hand in days can be done by a
machine in a matter of hours. This means that you can produce the same design
in mass quantities. The only downside is that it is not able yet to produce the
amount of color detail, variation and gradation that a genuinely hand made
tapestry can achieve.
Does this affect the price of a tapestry? It could but you
have to remember that how it is made is just one of the factors because there
are other things that people have to take into consideration. Such issues
involve who made the tapestry, the cost of the materials, the cost of labor and
the reputation of the maker.
If the tapestry company has been doing this for years and
have had a lot of orders from customers around the world, naturally the price
of their products will go up compared to a startup company who is trying to
establish a foothold in the business.
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