Antique Verdure Loom Tapestry

00550
Period
Circa 1890
Origin
Spain
Materials
Wool
Status
Available
Size
204 cm x 165
6'8" x 5'5"
Tapestries such as the current example were woven in Spain towards the beginning of the 20th century, when the high demand for French tapestries prompted the development of the ‘power loom’, which was a semi-mechanical, steam operated machine employed in Spain in order to reproduce the themes present in European tapestries from the Middle Ages to Rococo.

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