cartoon

…be transferred first to a cartoon. The cartoon is a full-size paper drawing that is squared, each square representing one knot of a particular colour. The weaver places this upon the loom and translates the design directly onto the carpet. The cartoon is used for reproduction of very intricate designs…

Cartoons are used today primarily for conveying political commentary and editorial opinion in newspapers and for social comedy and visual wit in magazines.

A cartoon originally was and still is a drawing, a full-size pattern for execution in painting, tapestry, mosaic, or other form. The cartoon was the final stage in the series of drawn preparations for painting in traditional Renaissance studio practice. In the early 1840s, when that…

…series of more than 60 cartoons (preparatory paintings), on which he was engaged until 1792, for the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Bárbara. These paintings of scenes of contemporary life, of aristocratic and popular pastimes, were begun under the direction of the German artist Anton Raphael Mengs, a great exponent…

In Western tapestry the medieval cartoon, or preparatory drawing, was usually traced and coloured by a painter on a canvas the size of the tapestry to be woven. At the end of the 15th century the weaver probably wove directly from a model, such as a painting, and consequently copied…

…was organized in Tournai by cartoon painters including Louis Deltour, Edmond Dubrunfaut, and Roger Somville, who became the leading designers of Belgian tapestries. This was followed in 1947 by the organization in Tournai of a collective tapestry workshop, the Centre de Rénovation de la Tapisserie, active until 1951. Small workshops…