Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") stereographic drawings A charming group of four

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

perhaps one a later mend

Plus what looks like a draped curtain framing her to the left

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

now seemingly forgotten except among enlightened educational organizations

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") stereographic drawings A charming group of fourI'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