Venetian lampshade Sample Card

When I visited Venice quite a few years ago with my bead friend Carole, we saw lengths of lampshade fringes like these being made by hand.
Basically there is a narrow loom and the tape is simply woven of white cotton or linen thread with a needle not a shuttle, -every 2 or 3 wefts the thread extends away from one edge and the small and long beads are threaded on, then the needle carrying the weft thread returns towards the warp through all but the end bead to carry on as weft for another couple of rows, then the next fringe strand is threaded, and so on...and as the work grows it is rolled onto a cylindrical barrel.
Any weavers here may know the correct terminology better than I do!
Perhaps this sort of work could still be done today in India or China.

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Stefany Tomalin September 17, 2010 at 6:14pm

When I visited Venice quite a few years ago with my bead friend Carole, we saw lengths of lampshade fringes like these being made by hand.
Basically there is a narrow loom and the tape is simply woven of white cotton or linen thread with a needle not a shuttle, -every 2 or 3 wefts the thread extends away from one edge and the small and long beads are threaded on, then the needle carrying the weft thread returns towards the warp through all but the end bead to carry on as weft for another couple of rows, then the next fringe strand is threaded, and so on...and as the work grows it is rolled onto a cylindrical barrel.
Any weavers here may know the correct terminology better than I do!
Perhaps this sort of work could still be done today in India or China.

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