by Heather Luke | Jun 20, 2015
The woven cloth that either supports more complex over weaves, or provides the base for printing colour and pattern. The quality of the ground cloth determines the quality of the result. 1. As the base cloth for printing it is the grey cloth. In printing, a same print...
by Heather Luke | Jun 20, 2015
From the French, meaning ‘coarse grain’, a heavily ribbed ribbon or fabric where the weft is heavier than the warp, woven from silk, cotton or rayon in a wide range of colours. Grosgrain is used for trimmings, as stabilising tape, and hatband stripes are...
by Heather Luke | Jun 20, 2015
A lightly ribbed silk fabric similar to taffeta but coarser. Originally made in the city of Tours, France, hence it’s name. It’s a finely woven grosgrain, a faille, with a two or three ply warp interlaced with tram filling. It is mostly used as wall or...
by Heather Luke | Jun 20, 2015
A technique of painting in grey monochrome applied to paintings, for murals or painted on textiles, where they sometimes emulate relief as trompe l’oeils. I’ve seen grisaille panels pinned to the walls like tapestries in France, Italy, Holland and...
by Heather Luke | Jun 20, 2015
Gryphon or Griffin. In mythology, a winged animal with an eagle’s head and a lion’s body.
