This aubusson style verdure tapestry follows the French Aubusson verdure tradition: a wooded landscape of layered trees opening onto a river and distant hills, inside a deep border of flowers and fruit with a ribboned cartouche at the top.
Details
- Size: 64 x 46 in (163 x 117 cm)
- Material: handwoven wool: handspun wool on a cotton warp
- Age: vintage, woven in the 1990s
- Condition: very good
- One of a kind: woven freehand with no sketch or cartoon behind the warp. No second copy exists. The photographs show this exact piece.
Hanging it
Its tall format suits a narrow wall, a hallway, or the space beside a doorway or a staircase. It comes without a sleeve or rod pocket. For a piece this size, use hook-and-loop tape along the full top edge with a sturdy wooden batten, a clip rail, or a casing for a rod sewn on by a tailor.
Stitch by stitch
The colour blocks and hatching are worked stitch by stitch, not printed, and the weave has real weight. Up close you can follow the hatching where one shade of foliage gives way to the next.
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