Object: Book
Author/Editor:
Denis Diderot
Author/Editor:
J. D'Alembert
Date: 1769
Medium: Paper
Country: France
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: P84.15.2C
Description"Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts. Et Des Metiers..." D. Diderot and J. D'Alembert, Paris 1769. A group of six recueils de planches from vols. 9 and 10, all concerned with tapestries and textiles, and showing the processes of their manufacture, including illustrations of craftsmen, at work and drawings and diagrams of the tools and machinery employed. 1)TAPISSIER. 2)L'ART DE FAIRE DES TAPIS DE PIE FACON DE TURQUIE. 3)TAPESSIERIE DE HAUT-LISSE DES GOBELINS. 4)TAPISSERIE DE BASSE - LISSE DES GOBELINS. 5) TEINTURE DES GOBELINS. 6)TEINTURIER EN SOIE DU TEINTURIER DE RIVIERE.
Label Text:This plate from "Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts, et des Metiers", an encyclopedia about eighteenth-century textile manufacturing, includes diagrams of machinery and drawings of craftsmen and laborers at work. Various operations—from selecting fibers to weaving on the basse-lisse loom—are performed by employees in an engraving of the Gobelins tapestry workshop.
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