LOAN EXHIBITION OF TAPESTRIES

Portal Tapestries

Progress in strain monitoring of tapestries

Tapestries are an important feature of many historic house and museum collections. They are often displayed on walls as originally intended, either hanging from the top edge or attached around all four edges. Textile conservators are experienced in visually assessing textiles for evidence of damage. Condition assessment by visual inspection is now routine (Lennard 2006). However, such visual in...

Making Glue: Public Authoring in Urban Tapestries

Urban Tapestries (UT) is a spatial annotation system allowing participants to contribute text, images, video and audio that are geo-tagged and positioned over a graphical street map of London; but even more than this it is about describing relationships to people, places and things. This ‘experimental software platform for knowledge mapping and sharing’ [1] exists within the Social Tapestries (...

From Loan Screening to Loan Prospecting

We study a controlled corporate experiment in which loan officers were compensated to engage in loan prospecting in addition to the traditional loan screening. Loan prospecting led to larger loan sizes (+15%) and higher origination rates (+31%) while keeping the traditional credit quality threshold and interest rate intact. Loan officers attempt to influence the decision making process: loan of...

Mapping colors from paintings to tapestries: rejuvenating the faded colors in tapestries based on colors in reference paintings

We addressed the problem of recovering or “rejuvenating” colors in a faded tapestry (the target image) by automatically mapping colors from digital images of the reference painting or cartoon (the source image). We divided the overall computational challenge into several subproblems, and implemented their solutions in Matlab: 1) quantizing the colors in both the tapestry and the referent painti...