Social Tapestries views participatory sensing as the principal supporting technology to enable grass-roots groups and communities to track and act on information about their local environment. In this article, we report on our experiences with a low-cost open source hardware and software platform, which we specifically developed for this task. We describe how we employed this platform to suppor...

This essay examines a corpus of drawings at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, that I discovered and attributed to John Carter (1748–1817) in 2010. Of Carter’s seventy-five this collection cover Westminster, four offer further detailed insights into Painted Chamber’s wall paintings tapestries c.1800. Annotated by Carter, these can be read alongside his other earlier Chamber found today...

persian carpet weaving is one of iran’s most famous industries that has attracted the world’s attention to persian arts through the centuries. what above all, have given prominence to persian carpet as a beautiful work of art are the pattern and its composition in a two-dimensional space. the diversity of patterns, use of deep and beautiful colors, good composition, harmony of colors, delicate ...

Fabric pattern is a folk art of artificial fabrics pattern design which includes apparels (known as clothes and hats), and crafts (known as carpets and tapestries). Although image processing, information retrieval and data mining have made a large impact on many human endeavors, they never had an impact on the study of the fabric image. In this paper we will present the reasons for this, and in...