Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") vintage monkey and shedding when one moves

and shedding when one moves her

The frame is wired on the back for hanging

It does appear that the roof (and maybe more) on this one might once have been papered

whose bawling I'd deem as fair based on the smug look on the face of the boy walking away

and no great mystery why

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") vintage monkey and shedding when one movesI'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