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...that John Henry Dearle (example of work pictured) was an apprentice tapestry weaver to Pre-Raphaelite artist and craftsman William Morris who rose to become Morris & Co.'s chief designer and Art Director after Morris's death?
...that no piece of goldwork embroidery has ever actually used pure gold?
...that double cloth or double-woven cloth is a type of weaving used in Pre-Columbian Peru and Victorian furnishing textiles in which two or more sets of warps and one or more sets of weft or filling yarns are interconnected to form a two-layered cloth?

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