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Weaving is an ancient profession. The richness of its technique, its inexhaustible variety is part of the cultural heritage of mankind. A significant artistic genre of the cultural history of art is tapestry. which redefined this technique and elevated it to art. Tapestry art on the border of fine arts and applied arts involves both the demand for message transfer by images and the endless repository of special technical possibilities of threads and weaving by hand. Tapestry is a unique and sovereign, timel
Hungarian Tapestry Art has formed its own character following the traditions of French manufacturers. Outstanding personalities of the Hungarian tapestry art, spanning over more than 100 years and involving several workshops, are Noémi Ferenczy, Leo Belmonte, György Kóródi; we could list the important names of this artistic genre. All of them learnt the determining basics of their profession in Paris.
Noémi Ferenczy set the roots of the still living approach of Hungarian tapestry art, based on her example craftwork developed into a separate artistic genre which can be synthesized in a special unity and performed individually. It marked the route which the Hungarian tapestry artists working in their own workshops has been following since then: the long, creative process, sometimes lasting for 1-2 years, whose phases – from planning, drawing through the selection of threads to weaving – are the results of