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Numenorean carpet
Tolkien never drawed the Numenor island itself. In place, he imagined a lot of things being done by its inhabitants at the top of their glory.
The carpet was done differently than the tapestries, in "haute-lisse" (meaning a vertically loom). The tapestries are done in "basse-lisse" (almost horizontally loom).
Such a carpet was done with "point noué", a technique still used nowadays.
It's soft under the eyes. I had to remove a dust from it one day, believe me, like for the tapestries it's rigid. And its weight? I don't know exactly. But what I can tell is a tapestry makes between 1 and 2 kilos by m². For a carpet it's around 3 kilos by m².
Like for any piece of the hanging wall, the carpet shows the signature of Tolkien.

Numenorean carpet

Tolkien never drawed the Numenor island itself. In place, he imagined a lot of things being done by its inhabitants at the top of their glory.
The carpet was done differently than the tapestries, in "haute-lisse" (meaning a vertically loom). The tapestries are done in "basse-lisse" (almost horizontally loom).
Such a carpet was done with "point noué", a technique still used nowadays.
It's soft under the eyes. I had to remove a dust from it one day, believe me, like for the tapestries it's rigid. And its weight? I don't know exactly. But what I can tell is a tapestry makes between 1 and 2 kilos by m². For a carpet it's around 3 kilos by m².
Like for any piece of the hanging wall, the carpet shows the signature of Tolkien.

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thelufias   [Jul 21, 2024 at 07:42 AM]
Would love to have one of these in this place

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