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    Damask (/ˈdæməsk/; Arabic: دمشق) is a woven, reversible patterned fabric. Damasks are woven by periodically reversing the action of the warp and weft...
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    Langendijk (Haarlem, 25 July 1683 – Haarlem, 9 or 18 July 1756) was a damask weaver, city artist, dramatist, and poet. Pieter was the son of Arend Kort...
    6 KB (845 words) - 08:59, 22 March 2024
  • Georg Jensen Damask is a manufacturer of home textiles based in Kolding, Denmark. The company was founded in 1756. In 1992, it was appointed as purveyor...
    4 KB (353 words) - 06:28, 29 April 2023
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    11, he took the role of Hournary Draftsman for a well-renowned local damask weaver producing designs and sketches. At 15, he was placed as a pupil with...
    28 KB (2,997 words) - 13:36, 29 May 2024
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    Quirijn Jansz Damast (category Dutch weavers)
    Damast was the son of Jan Damast Crijnsz from Courtrai. He became a damask weaver like his father, who had come to Haarlem about the time he was born...
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    Weaving (redirect from Weaver (occupation))
    the role and lifestyle and status of a handloom weaver, and that of the power loom weaver and craft weaver. The perceived threat of the power loom led to...
    70 KB (8,414 words) - 12:32, 17 May 2024
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    process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé. The resulting ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is...
    20 KB (2,527 words) - 10:40, 10 April 2024
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    were paired perfectly with the exquisite beauty and elegance of brocade, damask, and other superior silk textiles. Brocade fabrics are mostly for upholstery...
    10 KB (1,182 words) - 15:47, 23 May 2024
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    Loom (redirect from Handloom weaver)
    of manufacturing figured textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask and matelasse. The loom is controlled by punched cards with punched holes...
    61 KB (6,508 words) - 21:14, 23 May 2024
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    A weavers' cottage was (and to an extent still is) a type of house used by weavers for cloth production in the putting-out system sometimes known as the...
    13 KB (1,663 words) - 00:43, 10 December 2023
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    economic decline followed. Aid by the Prussian king, the settling of Saxon damask weavers, couldn't stop the downturn. Only the Industrialisation, beginning around...
    13 KB (1,378 words) - 19:57, 12 October 2023
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    religious movement Annaniterna (died 1879) - Sophia Magdalena Gardelius, damask weaver (died 1881) 4 April - Abraham de Broen, actor (born 1759) - Anna Brita...
    2 KB (135 words) - 22:27, 8 October 2023
  • Jette Nevers (category Danish weavers)
    Nevers has also produced designs for companies including Georg Jensen Damask and Kvadrat. As a result of her widely exhibited creations at home and abroad...
    4 KB (431 words) - 12:35, 16 March 2023
  • specialized in weaving silk apparels with motifs and specialized with brocade, damask and matelassé. They were accordingly primarily concentrated around major...
    11 KB (1,071 words) - 11:55, 14 April 2024
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    and his wife Anna Lundberg, born Kalling, Örebro, and sister to the damask weaver Carl Widlund and sister to Hilda Sofia (Hild) Zetterlind-Simonsen. She...
    11 KB (1,339 words) - 03:22, 6 February 2024
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    before it is returned to the weaver to sell for themselves. A weaver can work both as a mill weaver and an independent weaver.[citation needed] Harris Tweed...
    25 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 1 June 2024
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    1737, the son of Elias Zeissig and Anna Elisabeth (née Paul), poor Damask weavers, of Großschönau, near Zittau in Saxony. Together with his five sisters...
    10 KB (1,134 words) - 14:10, 19 January 2024
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    Åhrberg, surgeon and doctor (born 1801) - Sophia Magdalena Gardelius, damask weaver (born 1804) "Sten F Dehlgren". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish)...
    3 KB (162 words) - 19:21, 21 November 2023
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    pioneering work of English philanthropist Alice Rowland Hart. While the weavers in County Donegal produce a number of different tweed fabrics, including...
    8 KB (947 words) - 17:15, 20 April 2024
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    developed. Some formal dinners still use white tablecloths, often with a damask weave, but other colours and patterns are also common. Perugia tablecloths...
    5 KB (519 words) - 21:03, 21 March 2024
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