The city of Douai, situated between Arras and Tournai, did not seem up to now to have known the manufacturing of high-warp tapestries. Recent research in the city records allowed to trace the existence of five high-warp and of eleven common tapestry-makers, and sometimes even to get information on their activity. The little we could gather about their lives and trade shows them to have had relations both with Arras and Tournai, even if one of them was of Parisian origin. These few notes thus complete the history of tapestry- making in our region.Située entre Arras et Tournai, il semblait jusqu'ici que Douai n'avait pas connu de fabriques de tapisseries de haute lisse. Des recherches dans les archives de la ville ont permis de retrouver la t...
The discovery in Tours of a set of almost 6000 pieces in the same pit, located just outside the city...
The discovery in Tours of a set of almost 6000 pieces in the same pit, located just outside the city...
An assize account on the sale of cloth was found buried deep in the records of the house of the « Hu...
The city of Douai, situated between Arras and Tournai, did not seem up to now to have known the manu...
One has known for some time that the development of textile industry in the Roubaix-Tourcoing area i...
One has known for some time that the development of textile industry in the Roubaix-Tourcoing area i...
The documents presented here bear on the centuries-old conflict opposing Lille to the big boroughs d...
Under the «Ancien régime » , tapestry is often analysed according to its principal function, which c...
Under the «Ancien régime » , tapestry is often analysed according to its principal function, which c...
We still know very little about Tourcoing's textile manufactures. The author of the present article ...
We still know very little about Tourcoing's textile manufactures. The author of the present article ...
Entre 1528, date à laquelle François Ier promit à la municipalité parisienne le retour de la cour ap...
The discovery in Tours of a set of almost 6000 pieces in the same pit, located just outside the city...
The discovery in Tours of a set of almost 6000 pieces in the same pit, located just outside the city...
The Metamorphoses tapestry, woven at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins over some fifty years, begi...
The discovery in Tours of a set of almost 6000 pieces in the same pit, located just outside the city...
The discovery in Tours of a set of almost 6000 pieces in the same pit, located just outside the city...
An assize account on the sale of cloth was found buried deep in the records of the house of the « Hu...
The city of Douai, situated between Arras and Tournai, did not seem up to now to have known the manu...
One has known for some time that the development of textile industry in the Roubaix-Tourcoing area i...
One has known for some time that the development of textile industry in the Roubaix-Tourcoing area i...
The documents presented here bear on the centuries-old conflict opposing Lille to the big boroughs d...
Under the «Ancien régime » , tapestry is often analysed according to its principal function, which c...
Under the «Ancien régime » , tapestry is often analysed according to its principal function, which c...
We still know very little about Tourcoing's textile manufactures. The author of the present article ...
We still know very little about Tourcoing's textile manufactures. The author of the present article ...
Entre 1528, date à laquelle François Ier promit à la municipalité parisienne le retour de la cour ap...
The discovery in Tours of a set of almost 6000 pieces in the same pit, located just outside the city...
The discovery in Tours of a set of almost 6000 pieces in the same pit, located just outside the city...
The Metamorphoses tapestry, woven at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins over some fifty years, begi...
The discovery in Tours of a set of almost 6000 pieces in the same pit, located just outside the city...
The discovery in Tours of a set of almost 6000 pieces in the same pit, located just outside the city...
An assize account on the sale of cloth was found buried deep in the records of the house of the « Hu...