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To: papertyger
The 13th century result has been proven erroneous due to a repair known as "French reserving."

Make that "French Invisible Reweaving" and you'd be right. It was a technique developed in the 16th Century to repair tapestries and arrases that had frayed or been moth eaten so that the original images woven into them would not show the patch by "reweaving" new threads invisibly into the old, pre-dyed and matching the old ones. It required very skilled artisans to do the work.

62 posted on 04/12/2016 10:05:34 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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To: Swordmaker

A pox on auto-correct!


64 posted on 04/12/2016 10:09:10 AM PDT by papertyger (-/\/\/\-)
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