Most weavers prefer to design and weave on commission and it is in the commissioning that the real excitement lies. A good deal of bespoke weaving is for large architectural spaces, often planned by a team made up of the architect or art consultant and the tapestry artist. Commissioned work does not have to be for large corporate or civic buildings however, and commissioning for a specific area in the home can be particularly satisfying.
Commissioning a new tapestry is a skill in itself and the most important first move is to choose a tapestry artist/weaver whose work is sympathetic. In the search of an artist the Internet can be of great help in finding an experienced artist and also in determining if the artists design style is suitable for the project. A visit to the artist’s studio is also very helpful and most artists welcome such visits.
When a tapestry is commissioned the artist will work closely with the architect or art consultant to make sure that the work is fully compatible with its proposed setting. The commissioning process begins with discussions between the client and the team (or the artist/weaver) and then a design suggestion is prepared. If the client decides to go ahead, detailed discussions are held, after which a firm quotation is given, stipulating both cost and completion date. The amount of time it takes to weave a tapestry varies a great deal, but to give an indication, depending on the complexity of the design a 4ft x 8ft tapestry may take three month to one year to complete.
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One of the best known and most successful community projects was set up during the 1950s in Egypt by the architect Ramses Wissa Wassef. He opened a workshop in the village of Harrania specially to teach peasant girls and boys aged eight years and over to weave 
Artists have different formulas for pricing their tapestries. The most exact, worked out by an accountant that I found in “Weaving for Worship”, by Joyce Harter and Lucy Brusic was as follows: Take the material cost and the hourly cost of the labor and add them together. Multiply the resulting sum by 20% to account for overhead. Add these two figures together and multiply the resulting number by 10% to allow for profit. Add the 10% to the first figure to determine cost.
Weaving for hospitals, chapels or other non-denominational settings has to meet some special requirements; the design must be inspirational but not carry the iconography of any specific religious group; ideas such as peace, strength, healing, love and care are popular themes in these settings.
Different techniques work for different types of designs. For example, the technique called vertical slit (where the weft threads meet and separate in opposite directions) is useful for shading, while slit tapestry technique (where weft threads do not share a warp thread as they turn) will give a sharp line of color change. Diagonal slit tapestry (where the slit caused by meeting weft threads is on an angle) is useful for building shapes.
Through a description of a nun’s belongings and equipment from the end of the 15th century we know that a rya, a long-pile knotted rug, was included in the bedclothes. Thus from the beginning it had a purely practical character and was used as a bedcover with the pile side downwards. Even when the rya obtained some degree of 
The Bayeux tapestry, probably made in England around 1070 is considered to be the most distinguished example of preserved textile pictorial art from Norman times.