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técnica para tapiz no ranurado - trabado
Plain tapestry technique in which a structure of discontinuous warp threads combines with discontinuous weft threads to create areas of solid figures and colour in plain weave.
técnica para tapiz ojalado - con ranuras pequeñas
Split tapestry technique with smaller splits than in the techniques with large splits, and in which the use of discontinuous weft threads produces areas of colour or texture, with insertions, of various forms, sizes and uses.
técnica para tapiz ranurado
Technique of non-rectilinear tapestry making in which the discontinuous wefts do not interlock for various successive passes, producing an opening in the vertical direction; this is produced when each weft is doubled round a warp thread of its own area, this lack of lateral connection resulting in splits across the vertical or diagonal limits between areas, and when these limits are extensive, the split is more evident. This use of splits is characteristic of archaeological textiles fom the coast, in the clothing of warm climates. In other cases the splits have been sewn subsequently.
técnica para tapiz ranurado - con ranuras grandes
Split tapestry technique with splits or holes larger than in the buttonhole techniques and in which the use of discontinuous weft threads produces areas of colour or texture with insertions of various forms, sizes and uses. At times the term 'killim' is used as synomym for 'split tapestry' but this term refers more correctly to rugs elaborated in tapestry technique.
técnica para tramas en torzal
A variant of non-rectilinear tapestry making in which the threads are plaited.
técnica para trenzado
Technique based on system of warp threads that intertwine with each other. In the plaiting technique a single set of elements is manipulated applying to it oblique intertwining technique. Three vertical elements or threads are normally used to produce ropes for everyday use (e.g. the panuqa). In this case it involves a type of plain braiding and multiple strands, in which each strand is twining once before returning in the opposite direction. In the case of Andean slings with their more three dimensional form, a minimum of four strands is used. This quantity is quadrupled to produce the more complex techniques for thick slings.
técnica plana
Grouping of simple techniques which includes plain techniques and those with figures from stripes.
técnica simple de peinecillo con color en fila
Rectilinear warp faced textile technique which derives froma structure of only one or two warp layers, in which the intercalation of different colours occurs in distinct rows in the weft, and in which each row is of a single colour.
técnica tubular
Non-rectilinear warp faced technique applied in the finishing of edging and also in the elaboration of tubular laces, with simple variants with fewer colours and complex ones with more. In the case of the finishing, the tubular form is joined to the selvages of one weave with a weft that is manipulated with a needle and spiral pattern. To produce the designs the active coloured threads are worked, letting the rest of the coloured threads go, to pick them up later. In the complex cases a system of heddles is also used.
tecnología textil
Generic designation to refer to all those technological aspects related to textile production. It refers above all to the developments in the construction and complexity of the loom, its equipment and instruments, and the improvements that are developed in the production of a cloth.
tejido
In warp faced weaves, the process of applying textile techniques to the structure of the warp already set up on the loom, by manipulating techniques of selection and counting of the warp threads, or alternatively the techniques of double weave. By contrast, in weft faced weaves the weft threads are manipulated to create blocks of design.
tejido
Cloth formed from one or more groups of threads that are interlaced to form a structure.
tejido con urdimbre transpuesta con 1 trama
Weave elaborated in non-rectilinear warp face characterised by the manipulation of the warp threads one by one in quantity, worked with a single weft.
tejido con urdimbre transpuesta con tramas entrelazadas múltiples
Cloth woven in non-rectilinear warp faced weave assembled in a simple heddle loom, characterized by the interlocking shapes of the warp yarns in the form of diamonds, interlaced braids, zigzags and chevrons.
tejido entrelazado oblicuo
Non-rectilinear warp faced weave or cloth elaborated by interlacing its elements in oblique form. The emphasis on the horizontal axis generated by these techniques is expressed in motifs of rhomboids, zigzags or plaiting of the weave.
tejido equilibrado
Weave with balanced warp and weft threads combined with the same spacing, resulting in each grouping having the same thickness and flexibility.
tejido faz de trama
Weave in which the spacing of the weft threads over the warp threads is predominant, to the extent of covering them altogether.
tejido faz de urdimbre
Weave in which the spacing of the warp threads over the weft threads predominates to the point of hiding them, thus achieving a striated effect on the horizontal.
tejido llano fino (faz de trama)
Fine plain cloth made ​​from loom with weft faced weave in an open plain tapestry type. In the Inka and colonial periods vertical looms were used, in which the weave was pulled back by stone weights. Often results in textiles with remarkable designs, both in the quality of execution and colour pattern.
tejido llano rústico
Rectilinear warp faced weave elaborated on a simple loom with simple plain techniques.
tejido tubular
Tubular textiles or weaves as examples of non-recilinear warp face usually finish off the outer borders of the garment. They are added to the fabric with weft, that is manipulated with a needle in a spiral pattern.
tela
Term generally used as a synonym for cloth which is applied to any textile regardless of the raw material or technique employed in its fabrication.
tela a ganchillo
Buttonhole or knitted weave elaborated in mesh technique without a loom, with two single elements.
tela cuatripartita
Funerary garment, made from four square pieces joined together, and according to some descriptions could measure from 80 to 100 cm, and used to cover the false heads of the bundles.
tela industrial
Modern cloth produced on industrial looms whose weft and warp have a balanced relationship. In the recent past the threads were usually of cotton and are now of artificial fibres.
tela-urdimbre cruzada
Non-rectilinear warp faced weave produced by crossed warp techniques. It is set up on a simple loom with a pole to make the warp threads tense and then the interacting elements are manipulated by hand.
telar
Instrument that allows the warp to be secured, with the latter's threads being attached to added accessories and alternatively raised creating a space through which the weft can be introduced. In the Andes various types of loom were used: the waist or belt loom, the horizontal loom and the vertical loom, all of these basically composed from two main poles that secure the warp, and two poles to raise alternatively each of the heddles and introduce the weft in the intermediate space (the calada, or opening).
telar de cintura
Traditional variant of Andean loom in which the tension of the threads of warp and weft is maintained by the weaver with her own body.
telar de palo
Type of loom characterised by its simplicity and the use of a single cross pole, that the girls in the Andean region use to learn how to make shawls or braids (in Aymara tirinsa) warp face. The stability of this type of loom is achieved by gripping the pole in the toes.
telar de pedal
Variant of the loom developed in the East and brought to the Andes at the end o the 16th century by the Spaniards mainly to make baize or rustic cloth. The movement of the heddles is produced by a system of pedals. The tension of weft and warp threads is fixed and maintained by the solid wooden frame of the loom.