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  2. Tapestry - Wikipedia

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    In many subjects the millefleur background stretches to the top of the tapestry, eliminating any sky; the minimization of sky was already a feature of tapestry style; the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries show an early stage of the style. Prominent millefleur backgrounds, as opposed to those mostly covered with figures, are especially a feature of ...

  3. Jagiellonian tapestries - Wikipedia

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    The first tapestries were brought by Queen Bona Sforza as her wedding dowry. [6] Then in 1526 and 1533, Sigismund I the Old ordered 108 fabrics in Antwerp and Bruges. [6] Most of the tapestries, however, were commissioned by king Sigismund II Augustus in Brussels [3] in the workshops of Willem and Jan de Kempeneer, Jan van Tieghem [7] and Nicolas Leyniers between 1550-1565. [8]

  4. Domestic furnishing in early modern Scotland - Wikipedia

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    A wooden bed built into the wall panelling can be seen at Craigievar Castle, converted in the early 20th-century to hold a bathtub. [33] A wooden close bed or box-bed was an "essay" or apprentice piece for an Edinburgh wright in 1683, [ 34 ] and such beds remained a feature of a range of Scottish homes into the 19th-century.

  5. Beauvais Manufactory - Wikipedia

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    The so-called Teniers tapestries, in the manner of village scenes painted by David Teniers the Younger, began to be woven under Behagle and continued popular, with up-dated borders, into the eighteenth century, when the earliest series of archives begin. Tapestry from the suite of "Bérain Grotesques" (detail), made under the Behagles, c.1700 [3]

  6. Millefleur - Wikipedia

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    It is essentially restricted to European tapestry during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, from about 1400 to 1550, but mainly about 1480–1520. The style had a notable revival by Morris & Co. in 19th century England, being used on original tapestry designs, as well as illustrations from his Kelmscott Press publications.

  7. Franses Tapestry Archive - Wikipedia

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    The Franses Tapestry Archive and Library in London is devoted to the study of European tapestries and figurative textiles. [1] It is the world’s largest academic research resource on the subject. [ 2 ] [ 1 ]

  8. Baldishol Tapestry - Wikipedia

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    The Baldishol Tapestry is one of the oldest known surviving tapestries in Norway, and among the oldest in Europe. It is believed to have been produced between 1040 and 1190. It was discovered in Norway in 1879. It is part of the collection of the National Museum in Oslo. Tapestries of this type were popular in Norway from the Saga Age up until ...

  9. Scottish royal tapestry collection - Wikipedia

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    Two inventories of 1539 and 1543 list the tapestries of James V. [22] Some of these had belonged to James IV, though Gavin Douglas said that Regent Albany had cut up royal crimson and purple hangings to make clothes for his servants and pages, [23] but many were bought by James V, or were presents from Francis I of France on his marriage to Madeleine of Valois. [24]