colour-medium

Updated: May 9, 2025

The word weaver means so little in these days that it is necessary to consider what were the conditions exacted of the weavers of tapestries in the time of tapestry's highest perfection. A tapissier was an artist with whom a loom took place of an easel, and whose brush was a shuttle, and whose colour-medium was thread instead of paints.

Mrs. Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee - The Tapestry Book