"The weft makes the picture on the front of the tapestry. The warp is hidden, it's the plain vertical thread through which the coloured (horizontal) weft is woven."
Textile artists Katharine Swailes and Caron Penney, who make hand-woven tapestries to be framed or wall-hung, are explaining to me what 'weft-faced' means, it being the name of their business and studio: Atelier Weft-faced. "Weft-faced is the front, which looks - well should look - perfect." Penney and Swailes are dressed identically in buttoned-up blue work shirts, dark blue jeans and round rimmed glasses. Their irongrey hair short and undyed, their nails short and clean, their skin bare of make-up, they present themselves - visually, at least - as two halves of a whole.
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