20th Century Halluin Tapestry in the Aubusson Style

A colorful silk suzani embroidery on red wool ground. The center medallion is composed of stylized flowers and surrounded by a border of similar motif. With later backing.

An 18th Century scagliola table top featuring a multi-color foliate pattern populated with birds including a parrot at the center. The top has been repaired and is now reinforced wit...

A long William and Mary period stool on well turned legs connected by turned stretchers. The seat covered in old needlepoint. Terrific patination to the walnut. Some old repairs and ...

A hand-painted ‘mise-en-carte’ or point paper. This was the template used to create a woven textile. Pencil drawn grid lines represent the warp and weft. The margins contain hand wri...

Beautiful vintage French Aubusson style tapestry with a nice design of the nature with trees, vegetation inside the wood, and with a river. and with beautiful colours, entirely woven...

Pretty french mid century Aubusson style Jaquar tapestry with nice design of castle and nature with birds, and beautiful colors, entirely woven with wool.

Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work, unlike cloth weaving where both the warp and the weft threads may be visible. In tapestry weaving, weft yarns are typically discontinuous; the artisan interlaces each colored weft back and forth in its own small pattern area. It is a plain weft-faced weave having weft threads of different colors worked over portions of the warp to form the design. Most weavers use a natural warp thread, such as wool, linen or cotton. The weft threads are usually wool or cotton but may include silk, gold, silver, or other alternatives. The success of decorative tapestry can be partially explained by its portability (Le Corbusier once called tapestries...

Very beautiful mid century French tapestry with beautiful design of nature with birds and a palace, with beautiful colors, mechanical Jaquar manufacturing with wool. ✨✨✨ "Experience...