Independent weavers have the freedom to work at any size. Many of them like small works because they are relatively quick and easy to weave, and less expensive than larger pieces. Small tapestries are also simple to incorporate into modern domestic interiors, where they can be fixed as small hangings and hung as pictures.
Independent artist-weavers working on very large scale tapestries, usually for corporate clients or public bodies, may call on established workshops to do the final weaving. This sometimes used to pose a problem for designers. For example, during the 1960s and 1970s, most very large tapestries designed in the USA were sent to Europe to be woven
by expert weavers as at that time there were no weavers of top quality in the USA. Now, however, there are weavers with the skills to reproduce designs as originally intended in most countries that design tapestries.