Empire Textiles

Beautiful Flemish 17th C reclaimed tapestry pillow

Vintage Old World Weavers fabric designed to look like a 17th century tapestry. Pillow with a cotton back and down filling. Continental, circa 1970s.

This amazing double-sided lumbar pillow is handmade using Fortuny fabric Barberini pattern in grey, black & silvery gold. The pillow is embellished all along the four edges with twis...

18th century tapestry fragment bordered with vintage gold metallic trim on a pillow composed of velvet in rich milk chocolate hue. Pillow is custom-made with braid trim running along...

19th Century French custom made Hand-Woven Tapestry with pillow insert (included). Tapestry features a beautiful outdoor setting of a woman eating fruit under palm trees in soft tan...

Stunning pair of Fortuny textile pillows adorned with the illustrious De Medici pattern, a design that pays homage to the legacy of the Medici family. This pattern is not merely dec...

This pillow features LaRue Stripe with a knife edge finish. Inspired by an antique fabric, this layered floral stripe is printed on a crisp cotton ground. Pillow includes a feather/d...

These beautiful decorative throw pillows are designed and hand crafted in Italy, upholstered on both sides with a particular kind of luxury brocade called Lampas made of 100% cotton ...

This pillow features Toile De Fleurs with a self welt finish. Beautifully detailed twisting branches and flowers form an all-over ogee pattern in this classic toile. Based on a coppe...

Perfect for pampering yourself or your guest, Versace towels are a must have for any contemporary and luxurious home. Rectangular cotton terrycloth towel...

Brussels late 17th century tapestry, "Asia" from a Four Continents series. Designed by Lodowijk van Schoor, Woven in the Workshop of J. van der Borcht I Size: 9'4 high x 18' wide. Wool, silk and metal thread pattern wefts This extremely colorful and attractive late Baroque Flemish tapestry with a popular iconography is the product of two important figures in 17th century Brussels weaving. J. van der Borcht I (circa 1650–1713) was a master weaver and tapestry entrepreneur who established a most distinguished family tapestry firm and was followed by J. van der Borcht II, Jasper van der Borcht, Pieter van der Borcht and Jan Frans van der Borcht, taking the operations into the mid18th century. Their wealthy patrons allowed the firm to engage some of the best designers and as a result the artistic quality, as well as the sheer technical execution, is always high. The Van der Borchts wove tapestry series (or single pieces) of Mythological Scenes, Months, Allegories, Armorials, Triumphs of the Gods, The Continents, as well as more down-to-earth genre scenes designed or inspired by David Teniers II or Teniers III. Their artist designers included, besides the Teniers, Jan van Orley, Augustin Coppens, Gerard Lairesse, Phillipe de Hondt, and the Antwerp-born Lodowijk van Schoor (circa 1650–1702), the designer of U-1362. Van Schoor was the successor of David Teniers III. He was the designer or co-creator of about fifteen sets of tapestries. His cartoons were utilized and copied in both the Northern and Southern Netherlands, and continued popular well into the 18th century. His style, especially in his later works, is more harmonious and refined than Teniers and he avoided genre scenes with peasants. Van Schoor sometimes collaborated with other artists, for example Lucas Aertschellinck (1620 – 1699) who specialized in landscape backgrounds as in the set of Mythological Scenes” woven circa 1700 in the Van der Borcht shop. He did not collaborate on this tapestry, Van Schoor’s figures are graceful and his color schemes vivid, in keeping with the best of contemporary Flemish tapestry. Van Schoor’s designs influenced artists working at great remove from Brussels, even so far as the Florentine workshop of Bernini and Demignot where a Van Schoor inspired “Four Continents” set was woven in the early 1720s. The “Four Continents” or “Four Parts of the World” was a popular theme in the 17th and 18th centuries for tapestry patrons. Each continent was identified by native peoples and animals: America (North and South together) by Indians and the Turkey bird...

Custom 18th century floral tapestry pillow in beautiful Schumacher silk velvet and antique gold metallic trim. Price listed is per pillow. D...