Spain's Royal Tapestry Factory combines centuries-old craft with new innovations

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(24 Dec 2023)
SPAIN TAPESTRIES
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Madrid, Spain - 30 November 2023
1. Wide of workers weaving in carpet workshop of Royal Tapestry Factory
2. Pull focus from yarn to weaver
3. Various of workers weaving rug
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alejandro Klecker de Elizalde, general director, Royal Tapestry Factory:
"We manufacture carpets of Turkish knot and Spanish knot, of course, tapestries, which is the origin of this factory, heraldic banners, which are these coats of arms that hang from balconies, palaces and public institutions. We restore all types of fabrics. Just as in the first products we talk about 18th century techniques, in textile restoration, we are in the 21st century. And then of course, we have an archive and documentation activity, as we have one of the most important textile archives and libraries in Europe.”
5. Close of bobbins of different colours for weaving tapestries
6. Various of worker repairing tapestry
7. Close of hands smearing ink onto reed to mark design on warp
8. Close of hands marking design on warp for tapestry
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Soria, master tapestry weaver:
“We use our handle, which is graphite, or our cane, which we stain with Indian ink. Thread by thread, stitch by stitch, we go through, turning each thread 360 degrees, otherwise we would lose the pattern when we knit. Once we have done this, we have our range of colours, which we prepare beforehand and we introduce them little by little in different ways. The weaving itself is a rod pass and then a warp pass, which is pulling our threads and so, constantly, we make the basic weave.”
10. Wide of Soria preparing warp on loom
11. Various of Soria weaving tapestry in front of mirror
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Soria, master tapestry weaver:
“A curiosity that we do with tapestries is that we work backwards. We reverse the images up to three times. The cardboard is on the back, which we have to look at and the image is like this. When it's time to transfer it, we turn it over again and when it's time to look in the mirror, we invert the image again.”
13. Pan left of tapestry workshop, workers
14. Various of worker using wooden spinning machine
15. Various of worker using wooden spinning wheel to mix colours on one bobbin
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alejandro Klecker de Elizalde, general director, Royal Tapestry Factory:
“To preserve trades that are thousands of years old but, above all, are sustainable and form a fully circular economy. Here, the only products we work with are silk, wool, jute, cotton, linen. And these small leftovers that we create, the water from the dyes, or the small pieces of wool, everything is recycled, everything has a double, a second use. And therefore, I think it is very important to maintain a factory that produces exclusive work, because each piece is exclusive for each client and it is also immersed in what we all want today, which is a factory that is one hundred percent sustainable and has a circular economy.”
17. Various of workers cleaning rug in centuries-old wooden machine
18. Various of workers cleaning tapestry in specialist cleaning pool
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Verónica García Blanco, head of the department of Restoration of Historic Tapestries and Textiles of the RFT:
20. Various of restorers weaving rug to give it a new structure
21. Worker preparing military banners
22. Worker restoring tapestry
23. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Verónica García Blanco, head of the department of Restoration of Historic Tapestries and Textiles of the RFT:
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