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Lost Areas Compensation Technique

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.

After the previous repair removed the new warp inserted. Appropriate yarn dyed. Lost area rewoven according to design.
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Tapestry

Soumak Technique,

Appropriate yarn for weft, warp, and supplementary warp is dyed. New warp inserted and weft woven.

Soumak Technique,

Soumak Technique.

Supplementary (design creating) weft looped around the warp according the design between the basic weft. Selvage created at the same time.

Soumak Technique.

Native American rug. ("German Town")

Before

In The Process (a)

The warp inserted and linked to trim.

In The Process (a)

In The Process (b)

The warp is streched with trims on a frame.

In The Process (b)

In The Process (c)

The remains of the original weft are woven in. The dyed weft is rewoven to fill missing space.

In The Process (c)

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

Full View Before & After (top) In The Process & Back (bottom)

Before (left) After (right)

Before (left) After (right)

Before (left) After (right)

Before (left) After (right)

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 (a)

In The Process (b)

Yarn is dyed and missing area is re-embroidered in cross stitch technique.

In The Process (b)

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.

Area Before (above) After (below)

Banjara embroidery.

Before

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.

After

Banjara Bag Test Dyed Yarn

The appropriate yarn was selected and dyed to match the colors of the embroidery.

Banjara Bag Test Dyed Yarn

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 Before

Area 1 After

Canvas was attached to the back and design was re-embriodered

Area 2 Before

Area 2 After

Full View After

Full View After

African Robe Area 1 Before

Yarn was dyed and retwisted. Missing parts of the design were re-embriodered with the orginal technique.

African Robe Area 1 Before

Area 1 After

Yarn was dyed and retwisted. Missing parts of the design were re-embriodered with the orginal technique.

Area 2 Before

Area 2 After

Full View After

Full View After

Looping Technique

Full View After

Papua New Guinea warrior shield holder.

Full View After

Linen was dyed and waxed to match the original bast fiber.

Before.

In the Process.

Treated yarn was attached to the loose ends. Missing area was filed in looping technique.

In the Process.

After

Fabric Reweaving

Before

The missing threads of the weft was rewoven yarn of appropriate color and texture.

After

Poul Poiret dress 1908

Poul Poiret dress 1908

African textile. Ewe cloth

Before

The weft is rewoven and connected to the original fabric in the process of reweaving

In The Process

After

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