ghobelin

Updated: May 1, 2025

And as the old world seemed to me only a great art museum, I longed to look behind the tapestry at the Ghobelin weavers, pulling the beautiful threads. "Where dwell these gay and happy students, who quit our hard, bright skies, and land of angularities, to inhale the dews of these sedative mosses, and, by attrition with masterpieces, glean something of the spirit of the masters?"

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War