Romantic Textiles

Decorative pair of down-filled silvery-taupe and white Fortuny cushions with Fortuny border. "Carnavalet" Fortuny pattern on both sides 22 inches sq...

A pair of Fortuny cushions in the Ashanti pattern in slate blue and silvery gold. With silk bias edging and silk pongee backs.

A beautiful pair of Fortuny Fabric cushions in a light blue and gold colorway. Featuring bias edging and matching, light gold backing. The pattern is a 17th century Italian design wi...

Ca. 1850 Antique Portuguese Pillow

A pair of vintage silk Fortuny pillows with down filling. Front and back are both silk. Circa 1980s, Italy.

Magnificent carved velvet with a dominant linen pattern of Hungarian stitch, characteristic of the 17th century. Fabulous woven pattern. For those interested, A Hungarian stitch is one of the oldest needlepoint techniques and employs three long stitches combined with two shorter ones to deliver, roughly, a diamond-shaped result. Shades of rose, red, green, yellow….very intricate in carved velvet. The end pattern gives a Missoni-inspired reinvented flame stitch of sorts. As an aside, this is by far the most costly fabric in my inventory. I feel somewhat compelled (but not too much) to apologize for the pricing. But recently through an odd set of events, I found myself in a factory on the border of Belgium and France. Pierre Frey fabrics (and some being crafted for The Orient Express) were on their looms and I was captivated. Pricey…for sure…..worth it…no question. This listing is for a pair of plush down-filled pillows. They will be crafted using Pierre Frey Budapest...

A modernist wool woven tapestry designed by French artist and designer Mathieu Mategot (1910-2001) circa 1960s. The piece is signed with Matégot and monogrammed TMP fino (Manufactur...

Antique French Aubusson Tapestry Pillow Ca. 18th Century

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...

This distinctive Central Asian Suzani balances classicism with a true sense of artistic freedom. The majority of the border is comprised of alternating floral bursts; the first deriv...

A pair of custom-made down-filled pillows in Fortuny fabric, featuring a raised coral pattern over a silvery background. Finished with twisted cord trim and linen backs.

Antique Pillow The French Aubusson Tapestry panel dates from the 17th Century Woven in Naturally Dyed wool and silk Finished on four sides with wide antique gold metallic and line...