Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") stereographic drawings and color on that bird

and color on that bird is strong

A charming group of four scenarios--girl swinging from a beam set between two trees

unminded--and the face on that one really does it for me

but more unusually the other with angled guide lines of varying widths

Found in Upstate New York and I would guess late 19th/early 20th c

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") stereographic drawings and color on that birdI've done my best documenting this, but it's a different thing holding it in your hands and see up close and feel viscerally the amount of skill and labor that went into making it hundreds of years ago. (The back gives some sense of that labor.) It is a fragment of a tapestry, which itself came out of a historic textile collection held by a textile mill. (I purchased it from a favorite dealer in Vermont who often acquires interesting things