Museum Textile Services
  • About MTS
    • Our Team
    • Client List
    • Press Room
  • Textile Conservation
    • Asian Art
    • Architectural Interiors
    • Ethnographic Textiles
    • Flags & Banners
    • Historic Clothing
    • Quilts and Coverlets
    • Samplers & Embroideries
    • Sports Memorabilia
    • Tapestries
  • Fumigation Services
    • Fumigation FAQs
    • Our test results
  • Andover Figures™
    • Our Mission
    • The Andover Figures System
    • Choosing a Form
    • Purchasing Andover Figures
    • AF Contact Form
  • Resources
    • MTS Magazine
    • Textile Conservation Basics
    • Textile Stabilization
    • Textile Storage
    • Displaying Historic Costume
    • Displaying Flat Textiles
    • Museum Pests
    • Disaster Response
    • Advanced Topics
    • Class Readings
    • Staff Publications
    • Resources in Spanish
    • MTS Videos and Slide Shows
  • Blog
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Architectural Interiors
Asian Art
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Ethnographic Textiles
Flags & Banners
Historic Clothing
Quilts & Coverlets
Samplers & Embroideries
Sports Memorabilia

Tapestries

European-style tapestries are large decorative wall hangings woven by hand in a tapestry weave. The word “tapestry” actually refers to the weaving technique, not a particular type of textile. In order to hang properly, tapestries need a Velcro hanging system and proper lining. Before they can be hung they usually need cleaning, structural repairs such as tabby reweaving in areas of weft loss, and closing of slits between color fields. Museum Textile Services is a unique tapestry conservation facility, combining superior hand skills and a deep research background.
Tapestry Conservation
Installing a tapestry in the Burnes Library, Boston College.
Many other historic textiles are made in tapestry weave including Navajo rugs, kilims, Chinese kesi, Kente cloth, and many Coptic and pre-Columbian textiles. Our tapestry conservation skills apply to to large and small tapestries alike.
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Detail of a Cretan embroidered tapestry, c 1950. Courtesy Wheaton College.
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Detail of a Chinese kesi, c 1780. Courtesy Wadsworth Atheneum.
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Detail of an Anatolian kilim, ca. 1950. Courtesy private collector.

Museum Textile Services, LLC

P.O. Box 5004
Andover, MA 01810
admin@museumtextiles.com
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978.474.9200
  • About MTS
    • Our Team
    • Client List
    • Press Room
  • Textile Conservation
    • Asian Art
    • Architectural Interiors
    • Ethnographic Textiles
    • Flags & Banners
    • Historic Clothing
    • Quilts and Coverlets
    • Samplers & Embroideries
    • Sports Memorabilia
    • Tapestries
  • Fumigation Services
    • Fumigation FAQs
    • Our test results
  • Andover Figures™
    • Our Mission
    • The Andover Figures System
    • Choosing a Form
    • Purchasing Andover Figures
    • AF Contact Form
  • Resources
    • MTS Magazine
    • Textile Conservation Basics
    • Textile Stabilization
    • Textile Storage
    • Displaying Historic Costume
    • Displaying Flat Textiles
    • Museum Pests
    • Disaster Response
    • Advanced Topics
    • Class Readings
    • Staff Publications
    • Resources in Spanish
    • MTS Videos and Slide Shows
  • Blog