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Vintage Mid Century Modern Style Handmade Wool Shag Wall Hanging Fiber Art
Located in Seattle, WA
This stunning vintage wool wall hanging features a richly textured Tree of Life design in beautiful earth tones of green, blue, and cream. C...
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Colorful Wall Tapestry – Geometric Composition from the 70s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Colorful Wall Tapestry – Geometric Composition from the 70s
This vibrant wall tapestry, created in France around 1970 by an unknown artist, is a textile work of art featuring a geom...
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Antique Framed Tapestry, Continental, Needlepoint, Decorative Panel, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique framed tapestry. A Continental, needlepoint decorative panel, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Charming t...
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Late 19th Century Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Middle Eastern Wall Art Tapestry Traditional Large Prayer Rug Signed
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Middle eastern Wall Art Wool Tapestry Traditional Large Prayer Rug Runner
Signed
Handmade Persian prayer Rug
20W x 80L x 2H
Original Unrestored Vinta...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Middle Eastern Persian Prayer Rug Handmade Wall Art Tapestry
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Traditional Small Rug Middle Eastern wall art Tapestry
Handmade Persian prayer Rug
21.25 x 34.75 h
Preowned original vintage condition.
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Traditional Middle Eastern Wall Art Small Handmade Tapestry
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Small Rug Middle Eastern Wall Art Tapestry
Handmade
24.5 w x 28.5 tall
Preowned original vintage condition.
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Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Midcentury Tapestry with Velvet Frame
Located in Mombuey, Zamora
French tapestry from the 1940s or 1950s with a romantic scene, framed in a frame of all golden brown and with brown velvet,
The tapestry is in very good condition, the frame has som...
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Early 20th Century French Baroque Revival Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Velvet, Wood
Dutch Contemporary Abstract Textile Art Mood Swing by Femke van Gemert
Located in Amsterdam, NL
This work has several points of view. It talks about getting a different perspective, very suddenly, unexpectedly. It can be on an emotional level, how a sudden upheaval in the mood ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Organic Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Leather, Textile, Silk, Yarn
$17,075 Sale Price
20% Off
African Yoruba Diviner's Beaded Wall Hanging Panel Sash 1950
Located in North Hollywood, CA
African Yoruba Diviner's Beaded Wall Hanging Panel Sash 1950.
This extraordinary beaded wall hanging is a stunning example of Yoruba craftsmanship, d...
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Mid-20th Century Nigerian Folk Art Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Beads
Large Vintage Decorative Wall Panel, Middle Eastern, Textile Frieze, Sequins
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a large vintage decorative wall panel. A Middle Eastern, ornate textile frieze with sequins and faux gemstones, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1980.
Enthusiastically decorated panel with fascinating finish
Displays a desirable aged patina and in good order
Distinctive sections of unique patterns and materials
Sequins and faux gemstones glisten in the light
Complete with 16 metal hoops to upper edge for ease of wall hanging
This is a highly distinctive vintage wall panel...
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Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Dutch Contemporary Textile Art Nature Cutout by Femke van Gemert
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Enter the serene world of Nature Cutout, where vegetation blends with water and clouds rush by. For Femke, this scene brings peace and space to her mind.
But beyond its beauty, Natu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Organic Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Leather, Yarn
$8,917 Sale Price
20% Off
Contemporary Wall Tapestry with Hand-Sewn Repurposed Materials and Muted Tones
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Security Blanket" is a one-of-a-kind wall-hanging statement piece as part of Kelly Kozma's collection "Point 5". This large crafted piece is hand-sewn by the artist in the United St...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Minimalist Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Tapestry, Thread, Paper
Early 18th Century Brabant Brussels Tapestry Fragment with Swag and Rams Heads
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-woven by a workshop in the early 1700’s, this tapestry fragment features a lush fruit and floral display with swag and rams’ heads. The rams’ heads are located in the upper corn...
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Early 18th Century Belgian Louis XIV Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Wool, Silk
1970s Vintage Handmade Elegant Persian Rug Silk Tapestry
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Vintage Persian Silk Tapestry Rug
38.25 x 57
Preowned original vintage condition
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Silk
Early 19th Appliqué Collage Sir Percival Radcliffe 3rd Baronet of Rudding Park
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A beautiful applique collage of late Georgian silkwork figures and decorative section, no doubt from a larger textile hanging. They have later been to remounted in 19th century into ...
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Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Silk, Pine
Dutch Contemporary Textile Art Under the Blue Sky by Femke van Gemert
Located in Amsterdam, NL
When witnessing the tremendous amount of waste generated by fast fashion – an industry she worked within for many years – Femke van Gemert realised it was time for her to follow her ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Organic Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Leather, Textile, Silk, Yarn
$6,166 Sale Price
20% Off
Style Zapotec Wall Art Tapestry Colorful Black Pink Red Mexico
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Style Zapotec Wall Art Tapestry Rug
Vibrant colors red, black and pink.
25.25 w x 39.25 tall
Preowned vintage unrestored condition.
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Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Vintage Navajo Textile Wall Art Hanging Tapestry Vibrant Orange
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Vintage Navajo Textile Wall Art Hanging Tapestry Vibrant Orange
36 x 46
Preowned original vintage condition unrestored.
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Woman Playing the Lute Tapestry in Frame
Located in Queens, NY
Vintage (20th Century) tapestry featuring a woman playing a lute, alongside an open book and flowers, Set in a wooden, bronze-finished frame carved with acanthus leaf designs.
Losse...
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Wood
Published Large Nazca Wari Textile Panel with Geometrical Design Framed
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Nazca-Wari woven textile panel known as Llika or Awayo (shawl) from Ica Valley on the south coast of nowadays Peru. Professionally mounted and conversed on a linen-backed wood frame and presented in an acrylic shadow box. Shawls with this step design were identified as made from the period of 700 to 1100 AD during the transitional period when Nazca went under the expanded rule of the Wari empire. The textile was finely woven from a camelid fiber dyed with natural pigments. The work strikes the viewer immediately with its unexpected modernity. The simple, bold and repetitive geometry with the scintillating color blocks created a lyrical visual rhythm and could easily mistake it as an abstract art from the 20th century. The step design was one of the unusual abstract motifs used by the pre-Columbian weavers from Nazca, who created some of the most mysterious and soul-stirring work with a minimalism aesthetic that was rarely seen in any other ancient textile art. Considering that the artists were completely isolated without the influences of other cultures, their intrinsic creativity and artistic vision are even more impressive.
Provenance: From the collection of Lee M...
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15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Mantle Kilim Type Tapisserie Multicolor Designs - Nazca 200-600 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Beautiful Pre-columbian Mantle with a Central Kilim Type Tapisserie of Multicolor Designs with Priests Upraising their Arms Toward the Skies. It is surrounded by 2 Long Red Plain Cot...
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15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragment from Chancay Culture
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique pre-Columbia textile fragment likely from Peru Chancay culture in Central coast that thrived in the late Intermediate period/ late Horizon, A.D. 1200-1550. Abstract geomet...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Acrylic
Dutch Contemporary Textile Art Clash & Connect by Femke van Gemert
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Clash & Connect captures the essence of a polarized year, where conflicts and opposing opinions dominated. Femke van Gemert's artwork reminds us that despite our differences, we shar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Organic Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Leather, Textile, Yarn, Silk
$9,391 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Antique Italian Silk Velvet Wall Hanging
Located in Doha, QA
This is a truly exquisite antique silk velvet wall hanging with hand woven floral peacock design and metal threads as a patchwork. The history of V...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Metallic Thread
Ottavio Missoni Patchwork in Wool Series Arras, Design in Years ’70 for Saporit
Located in Biella, IT
Saporiti Italy production and design Ottavio years '70 first series arras patchwork in wool.
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Wool
Dutch Contemporary Textile Art Hot Landscape by Femke van Gemert
Located in Amsterdam, NL
“Every piece of textile has been designed, produced, and worn or used otherwise. Therefore, every piece of textile has a story, a particular atmosphere and beauty. Every piece of tex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Organic Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
$8,632 Sale Price
20% Off
John Piper Chiesa Della Salute Venice Screenprint Textile 1959 Sanderson
By John Piper
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
JOHN PIPER CH (BRITISH,1903-1992) :CHIESA DELLA SALUTE, VENICE Screenprinted fabric, printed by Sandersons, 1959
In the late 1950's to the early 60's there was interest in painterly textiles that demonstrated the unique potential of screen printing, with its ability to capture the quality of brush-stroked colour
"The monumental grandeur of many artists' textiles in the early 1960's was necessary if they were to work in the large scale architectural interiors of the era which witnessed a rapid growth in new public buildings, all which required furnishing with suitably prestigious fabrics".
The painterly design is one of five fabrics designed by John Piper (1902-1993) for A Century of Sanderson 1860-1960, Sanderson's prestigious Centenary Collection.
This study of the Chiesa della Salute church in Venice was taken from Piper's 1959 travels when he was commissioned by the Arthur Jeffress Gallery in London. He then regularly made paintings of the city, and drew illustrations for an edition of Adrian Stokes...
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1950s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Contemporary Textile Wall Art The Lure of Light and Dark by Femke van Gemert
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Femke van Gemert uses discard textile to create her sustainable soft wall art reliefs. This work is made of the clothing leftovers and reveals some detai...
Category
2010s Dutch Organic Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
$11,857 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Decorative Vintage 1960s Wall Tapestry Art Pictured Bratislava Scenery, Cz
Located in Zohor, SK
Large decorative fine handmade vintage artwork 20th century 1960's wall tapestry showing scenery of Bratislava city. with Danube river. Set in an impre...
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1960s Slovak Mid-Century Modern Vintage Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Glass, Wood
$308 Sale Price
50% Off
Striped Inca Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, circa 1400-1532 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones adorn this striped pattern pre-Columbian textile.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Extremely Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Gauze Poncho Textile, Peru, 1000-1450 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Chimu brown gauze shirt with multiple red and white fringe lines forming V designs like the one around the neck, with very rarely seen sleeves and border fringe in the same material.
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15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Framed Large Nazca Textile Panel with Geometrical Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large woven textile panel from Nazca culture on the south coast of nowadays Peru circa 600 to 800AD. The panel with short fringes on the end used to be half of a sleeveless tunic (similar to poncho) in which two similar pieces were joined together. Professionally mounted and conversed on a linen-backed wood frame and presented in an acrylic shadow box. The textile was finely woven from a camelid fiber dyed with natural pigments. The work strikes the viewer immediately with its unexpected modernity. The tri-colored geometrical blocks created a zigzagged step design that is visually minimal but bold at the same time. Its repetition evokes a lyrical visual rhythm that is unparallel in the ancient textile art and could easily mistake it as an abstract art from the 20th century. The zigzag step design was one of the unusual abstract motifs used by the pre-Columbian weavers from Nazca, who created some of the most mysterious and soul-stirring work with a minimalism aesthetic that was rarely seen in the ancient world. Considering that the artists were completely isolated without the influences of other cultures, their intrinsic creativity and artistic vision are even more impressive.
Reference: James W. Reid, The Lee M...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Acrylic
Art Deco Asian Silk Embroidery Hanging, Framed, "Deer in the Forest", Circa 1940
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Important Vietnamese Silk Embroidery Hanging, Framed, "Deer in the Forest", Vietnam, circa 1940.
Discover a rare and elegant piece of Indochinese craftsmanship created during the Fr...
Category
1940s Vietnamese Art Deco Vintage Textile Tapestries
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Silk, Glass, Wood
Polychrome Wall Hanging ‘Fragment’ Designed by Anita Ullerstam, Sweden, 1991
Located in Stockholm, SE
Wall hanging ‘Fragment’ designed by Anita Ullerstam,
Sweden, 1991.
Six pieces of fabric sewn together, polychrome printed and embroidered.
Dime...
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1990s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Ceremonial Cape Textile Art from Hmong Miao People
Located in Atlanta, GA
An oversized and impressive cape worn during ceremonial dancing by Miao people (also known as Hmong in English) from Guizhou Province, China circa 1940s-1950s in a rarely intact and well-preserved condition. Miao people are diverse minority groups living in Southern China as well as Southeast Asia with complex sub-affiliations based on attires, languages, cultural customs and art tradition. They are renowned for their textile and silver craftsmanship as well as singing and dancing traditions. This cape, rather heavy in construction and striking in bold red and black, was made from wool, hemp and cotton. The surface showcases elongated diamond patterns in complementary woven wool and couched plaque on top of the cotton part. The pattern strikes the viewer with a strong sense of dignity and power. The heavy material and pattern are strangely akin to some of the Navajo weaving. The cape is in a form a jacket with long and wide sleeves, and it was meant to be used in ceremonial occasions.
Our research reveals that the piece was from the Northwest Guizhou in an autonomous county called Weining. The area is of subtropical highland and the generally cold weather was reflected in the heavy materials used in this piece, in comparison with other textiles made in the warmer lowland.
There is an older paper label with price tag in Chinese inside the cape. It was purchased in Guizhou decades ago by a US collection in MA. With a span of over 94 inches long, it makes a very impressive textile art piece for wall hanging. Not framed and easily shipping folded up.
For a similar jacket from Weining, see "Miao Textile...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Tribal Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Striped Inca Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, circa 1400-1532 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones adorn this striped pattern pre-Columbian textile. These piece is mounted on a black shadowbox frame.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts -- so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs.
Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...
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15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Vibrant Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho, Peru 200-600 AD, Ex Guillot-muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Magnificent Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho with a Geometric Step Design in Vibrant Ochre, Red, Green and Brown colors with its Original Fringes. Moun...
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15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Pair framed Antique Parsley Shaw Fragments
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two fragments of parsley shawl lovely framed in acrylic shadow boxes on linen background and presented as textile wall art. These fragments are likely dated in 19th century from Engl...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
$1,500 / set
Embroidery Silk Azarbaijan
Located in Ferrara, IT
This is an antique silk Azerbaijan embroidery woven during the 18th century and measures 76 x 74CM in size. It has an all-over highly geometric floral design with muted pastel colors...
Category
18th Century Azerbaijani Other Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Silk
Abstract Hand Loomed Tapestry by Sonja Flavin
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An artist-signed hand loomed tapestry with an abstracted geometric pattern complimenting Alvar Aalto's "Scroll" Chair. A small tag is hand-stitched to the ...
Category
1980s American Vintage Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
John Piper Stones of Bath Blue Textile Screenprinted Sandersons 1962 Abstract
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
John Piper (British,1903-1992) : Stones of bath, blue screenprinted fabric, by Sandersons, London, 1962
In the late 1950's to the early 60's there was interest in painterly textiles...
Category
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile, Stepped Zig-Zag Design, Nazca Peru 200-400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Pre-Columbian Nazca textile with stepped zig-zag design in yellow, ochre red, and brown/black shades with yellow fringes.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Ica Fringed Textile Panel, Ex Kate Kemper, Peru 800 to 1200 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A semi-ovoid rectangular panel with heavily fringed border having a very tightly woven multi-color geometric pattern consisting of two scroll devices containing multiple stylized zoo...
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15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Tapestry Louis XIV, 17th Century
Located in Brussels, BE
Tapestry Louis XIV, 17th century.
Category
Mid-17th Century French Antique Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Tapestry 'Forest Fragments' by Elsa Agélii, Silk and Mixed Media, 1988, Sweden
By Elsa Agélii
Located in Stockholm, SE
Tapestry “Forest Fragments” by Elsa Agélii,
Sweden, 1988.
Silk and mixed media.
Dimensions:
H: 155 cm/ 5' 1''
W: 135 cm/ 4' 5''
Category
1980s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Textile Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Silk
Vintage Textile Wall Tapestries for Sale on 1stDibs
Vintage textile wall tapestries can make a room feel warm and welcoming.
Whether you hang them behind your bed as a dazzling alternative to a headboard or over the sofa as a large-scale focal point in the living room, vintage tapestries can introduce an array of textures and colors to any space in your home.
Woven wall hangings haven’t consistently enjoyed the popularity or earned the highbrow status that other types of wall decorations have over the years, at least not since the 1970s, which was somewhat of a heyday for tapestries. Today, however, these tactile works of art are seeing a renaissance, as modern weavers are forging new paths in the medium while the demand for antique and vintage tapestries continues to grow.
“We are drawn to texture in environments, and we see tapestries as a subtle layer of soft ornament,” says Lauren Larson of the New York design duo Material Lust. Indeed, and a lot of opportunity comes along when decorating with this distinctive brand of soft ornament.
Think of wall hangings as paintings created by hand with fabric instead of oil or watercolors. If you’re not simply securing your treasure to a wall with nails, pushpins or Velcro, tapestries can be stretched over a frame, used to create a canopy in a cozy living-room corner, hung from a rod or placed inside a shadowbox. And because this kind of textile art is hundreds of years old, options abound with respect to subjects and designs.
For richly detailed depictions of landscapes and garden scenes, look to antique Chinese tapestries and Japanese tapestries. Aubusson tapestries are ornate wall hangings manufactured in central France that are also characterized by romantic portrayals of nature. For weavers of mid-century modern tapestries, as well as those working in textile arts today, the styles and subject matter are too numerous to mention, with artists exploring experimental shapes, bold colors and provocative abstract designs.
Find a collection of vintage textile wall tapestries for your space today on 1stDibs.
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