Framed Chinese Silk Embroidery of Two Birds in Blue, Green, Cream, Peach

Fine quality pair of circular floral needlework pictures. These pictures depict bouquets of English flowers. They are mounted and framed in their or...

Title: Large Vintage Silk Scarf Pale Blue Description: Beautiful and rare vintage designer silk scarf. Very pretty with multiple detailed p...

Large vintage Lanvin silk scarf pale blue butterflies fruits French Beautiful and rare vintage silk scarf Very pretty with butterfly and d...

The Aubusson tapestry manufacture of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries managed to compete with the royal manufacture of Gobelins tapestry and the privileged position of Beauvais tapestry. Tapestry manufacture at Aubusson, in the upper valley of the Creuse in central France, may have developed from looms in isolated family workshops established by Flemings that are noted in documents from the 16th century. Typically, Aubusson tapestries depended on engravings as a design source or the full-scale cartoons from which the low-warp tapestry-weavers worked. As with Flemish and Parisian tapestries...