Reweaving: Flat Woven Rugs and Tapestries, the Soumak Technique, and Native American Rugs
Appropriate materials are selected and dyed. Then the warp is inserted, and the weft is rewoven according to technique and design of the textile.
Tapestry
After the previous repair removed the new warp inserted. Appropriate yarn dyed. Lost area rewoven according to design. Images start top left.
Soumak Technique,
Appropriate yarn for weft, warp, and supplementary warp is dyed. New warp inserted and weft woven.
Soumak Technique.
Supplementary (design creating) weft looped around the warp according the design between the basic weft. Selvage created at the same time.
Before
Native American rug. ("German Town")
In The Process (a)
The warp inserted and linked to trim.
In The Process (b)
The warp is streched with trims on a frame.
In The Process (c)
The remains of the original weft are woven in. The dyed weft is rewoven to fill missing space.
After.
Pile Rugs Reweaving
This method is used to fill the lost section of pile rugs.
The first step is inserting the warp. Then the warp is stretched on a frame. The materials used in the process of reweaving have to match the original material in color and texture. The rows of pile knots alternated with weft(s) that connect to the rewoven section and the original.
Full View Before & After (top) In The Process & Back (bottom)
Cocaution saddle cover
Before (left) After (right)
Front
Before (left) After (right)
Back
Re-Embroidery
Before
In The Process (a)
The canvas fabric of the right thread count is attached to the back. Additional threads inserted are raise the surface of the original embriodery.
In The Process (b)
Yarn is dyed and missing area is re-embroidered in cross stitch technique.
After
Area Before (above) After (below)
The burned area is removed and replaced with the canvas of the right thread count.The area re-embroidered with the chain stitch technique.
Before
Banjara embroidery.
After
Mercerised cotton embroidery floss was untwisted to single span yarn to create an “old silk” effect. The area was re-embroidered repeating the original technique.
Banjara Bag Test Dyed Yarn
The appropriate yarn was selected and dyed to match the colors of the embroidery.
Area 1 Before
The appropriate yarn was selected and dyed to match the colors of the embroidery. A variety of original techniques were repeated to replace missing areas
Area 1 After
Area 2 Before
Canvas was attached to the back and design was re-embriodered
Area 2 After
Full View After
Banjara Bag
African Robe Area 1 Before
Yarn was dyed and retwisted. Missing parts of the design were re-embriodered with the orginal technique.
Area 1 After
Area 2 Before
Yarn was dyed and retwisted. Missing parts of the design were re-embriodered with the orginal technique.
Area 2 After
Full View After
African Robe
Looping Technique
Full View After
Papua New Guinea warrior shield holder.
Before.
Linen was dyed and waxed to match the original bast fiber.
In the Process.
Treated yarn was attached to the loose ends. Missing area was filed in looping technique.
