Tapestry and Pictorial Jacquard Weaving
topic
Mechanically produced tapestry fabrics use Jacquard-controlled weft-face weave structures with multiple shuttle carriers providing 4 to 16 weft colours per pick repeat to reproduce decorative pictorial imagery at resolution sufficient for wall hanging, cushion cover, and decorative panel applications, with Jacquard programming distributing each weft colour to the warp positions where that colour should appear in the design, building the image pick by pick as the weft yarns create the visible surface.
Role
Extends the artistic tradition of hand-woven tapestry into industrial production through Jacquard control that enables mechanised reproduction of complex pictorial imagery for decorative textile markets, with the quality distinction between machine-woven tapestry at 10 to 30 picks per centimetre and hand-woven tapestry at 50 to 100 picks per centimetre defining the price and quality positioning, with machine tapestry serving the mass decorative market that hand tapestry cannot supply at accessible prices.