Textiles with woven patterns were used as canvas by Spanish, Italian and Portuguese artists in the 16th and 17th centuries. Handwoven reconstructions of these canvases are produced at Lab O.
Discover here which Old Master paintings are on a patterned canvas...
...the canvas, x-ray image, as used by El Greco for the paintings in the 'Iglesia de la Caridad de Illescas'
...imagine, in the very first publication where I found the draft for the canvas that El Greco used for 'The Burial of the Count of Orgaz', another canvas was published in an x-ray image. It was in 2015, by then I had not yet 'discovered' the x-ray images. That's how it works in investigation... Now I had another read to that study, had a deeper look into that x-ray image, analysed it and made the weaving draft! Lots to weave ( although from this one I still have to try to find the correct density)
Thanks to my Portuguese I understand the Spanish language, without that I might never have found this precious study that initiated my investigation.
Thanks to Thais Rodés Sarrablo and Rocío Bruquetas.