Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") stereographic drawings but a few quick searches

but a few quick searches reveal that a number of the names of horses here have more recent/contemporary racing horse counterparts

making it a pleasure to hold and giving it a sculptural feel

and color on that bird is strong

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 but a few quick searchesI'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