Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") vintage monkey It does appear that the

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

and no great mystery why

I immediately thought of Velasquez’s “las Meninas

Very quiet and very beautiful I think

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") vintage monkey It does appear that theI'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