Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") vintage monkey I just don't have it

I just don't have it in me not to take charge of things like this

Ipswich [England] August 15

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

I immediately thought of Velasquez’s “las Meninas

The frame is wired on the back for hanging

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") vintage monkey I just don't have itI'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