Word: weaverization
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...tapestry and reflect on the time needed to work a surface that might extend for hundreds of square yards. One man could illuminate a Book of Hours. But the fabrication of a hanging might be farmed out among dozens of looms under the supervision of a master weaver. The fact that one of these entrepreneurs, Nicolas Bataille, who took more than three years to make the Angers Apocalypse for the Duke of Anjou, could still deliver five tapestries to the Duke of Burgundy in the course of a year argues a none too primitive form of mass production. The locus...
Tapestries, in fact, were a kind of bullion, amassed by their owners as an investment. But what guaranteed the value of tapestry also led to its destruction: countless masterpieces of the weaver's art were burned during the French Revolution to render down their gold and silver threads. Others, seen as emblems of monarchical privilege, were simply destroyed. The Met's own Unicorn tapestries were taken by peasants and used to wrap potatoes. Even the Angers Apocalypse served as burlap to insulate orange trees and stuff cracks in walls. This exhibition is only a fragment of what Europe...
Scott is never animated, never even engaged. Others - including Trish Van Devere and the others (excepting Paul Sorvino, who makes an amusingly sardonic spook) - embody the antique definition of good children: they speak only when spoken to. In the case of such actors as Fritz Weaver and Elizabeth Wilson, this is a blessing...
Costume designer Dorothy Weaver has succeeded in capturing the late-forties/early-fifties mood of Guys and Dolls. In this respect, aside from the Hot Box scenes, the show relies disproportionately upon the costumes...
...mathematician and an engineer from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, an engineer from the Naval Research Lab, a consulting chemist, an organic farmer, an auto mechanic, a theoretical physicist with a practical turn of mind, a carpenter, two women with lab jobs or training, a woman weaver, a welder (me) and the founder of Communitas...