Tapestries :: Courtley Elegance

Tapestry Gallery - Nearly 2000 tapestries in stock!
A unique combination of fine tapestries are available, specializing in hand-woven wool fabrics, using natural dyes, custom-dyed yarns, handspun yarns, and various, traditional weaving styles.

Tapestries that create the romance of courtly elegance - consider decorating your home with fine European tapestries and cushion covers.

Rich with history, the essence of courtley elegance is captured in the unique and decorative collection of medieval tapestries available on the web. Courtley elegance has been long captured in the tapestries amongst the aristocracy in the middle Ages. Not only were tapestries works of courtley elegance with rich fabrics, they also had a practical use, providing insulation for castle walls, covering openings as hangers and giving privacy around beds. Kings and nobles took them on their travels from castle to castle for reasons of comfort and prestige.

• Courtly Elegance
• Lake Como - Tapestries

• European Cushion Covers

Tapestries with courtley elegance are works of art and make decorative, unique gifts. Tapestries that reflect courtley elegance are one oldest and in technical terms, true tapestries. The word tapestry actually refers to a specific weaving technique of constructing many color areas in a fabric by weaving back and forth in small sections with different colors of yarn (technically: "discontinuous weft"). In a complex tapestry there can be scores of separate yarns that are used to build the overall image or design.

The courtley elegance found in antique Bayeaux tapestries is rich with history and first class weaving. Available online at discount prices is a vibrant collection of antique tapestries from the French revolution. The 18th and 19th centuries were times of grand elegance in Europe. Courtly elegance is a collection that includes examples of rich tapestry reproductions from the times of Louis XIV and includes works by LeBrun, Boucher, Huet and Fragonard.

This page is the main category page for the category called "Courtley Elegance" and should includes links to the "General" and the "Lake Como" series.