Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") stereographic drawings perhaps one a later mend

perhaps one a later mend

but more unusually the other with angled guide lines of varying widths

now seemingly forgotten except among enlightened educational organizations

making it a pleasure to hold and giving it a sculptural feel

but in ints absence a nice box for desk or studio table holding a wide variety of brushes

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") stereographic drawings perhaps one a later mendI've done my best documenting this, but it's a different thing holding it in your hands and see up close and feel viscerally the amount of skill and labor that went into making it hundreds of years ago. (The back gives some sense of that labor.) It is a fragment of a tapestry, which itself came out of a historic textile collection held by a textile mill. (I purchased it from a favorite dealer in Vermont who often acquires interesting things