{"product_id":"amazing-16th-century-belgian-mille-fleur-wool-tapestry-fragment-47-x-21","title":"Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47\" x 21\")","description":"\u003cp\u003eI'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 deaccessioned by museums and interesting private collections.) There is a piece of tape on the back side at one corner that describes it as gothic, and then the word mille--which in the process of writing this I've just figured out gets us to mille fleur, meaning a composition with many different small flowers and plants. And I've just found another example very very very close to it out there (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Anonymous_Millefleur_tapestry_with_medallions_%28detail%29_02.jpg\"\u003eHere is a link to that one) \u003c\/a\u003eidentifying it as mid 16th century Belgian, of Brussels or Tornai; looking at other Beligan examples from the same period, I am quite confident of the attribution. Just a fragment here, but of a good scale, and nice to have something 500 years old or so sitting or hanging around! Especially a textile, I'd say, with all that presence of hand-work embedded in it. Pretty special.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e47\" x 21\". One rough short edge as evident but nothing is loose or unraveling and it is not at all fragile. In very good very antique condition, incredibly constructed, tight and sound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"critical EYE Finds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47924889583870,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0015\/5022\/1382\/files\/IMG_7779_39f87fa0-bb0c-4271-b854-cf37dc03e842.jpg?v=1773449967","url":"https:\/\/www.criticaleyefinds.com\/products\/amazing-16th-century-belgian-mille-fleur-wool-tapestry-fragment-47-x-21","provider":"critical EYE Finds","version":"1.0","type":"link"}