Medieval tapestry

Medieval tapestry, ladies embroidering

This is my Medieval Merchant's house. I put a wine cellar in it. I went to the trouble of making bottles and racks but they were not invented until the 1700s so maybe you might want to take the out to be authentic. There is a chestbox hidden in the…

Going to war was the most masculine activity imaginable, and men who failed in battle were thought effeminate, so women who entered the fray broke the predominant pattern in a grand way.

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Fields of flowers, illuminated manuscripts, richly bordered woven tapestries. The magic world of medieval design.

Date: ca. 1420–30. Geography: Made in Basel, Switzerland. Culture: Upper Rhenish. Medium: Tapestry weave: wool on linen. Dimensions: 33 7/16 x 29 1/2 in. ...

This tapestry fragment depicts a shepherd couple entertaining themselves with music, while three sheep from their flock graze behind them in the flower-covered background. The shepherdess, seen at the left, holds up a sheet of music as she sings:Chantons sur lerbette Let's sing, on the grass,Avec ta musette with your bagpipe,Quelque note double a tune for two

In 1861 Morris founded Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company along with friends Peter Paul Marshall and Charles Faulkner and subsequently begun the Arts and Craft Movement. Together with Edward Burne-Jones and fellow artists Ford Maddox Brown and Dante Gabriel Rosetti, the group produced some of the most creative tapestries and wall hangings Britain had seen.