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The word weaver means so little in these days that it is necessary to consider what were the conditions exacted of the weavers of tapestries in the time of tapestry's highest perfection. A tapissier was an artist with whom a loom took place of an easel, and whose brush was a shuttle, and whose colour-medium was thread instead of paints.
A quick glance at the plates showing the work of tapestry's next highwater mark, the hundred years of the Gobelins' best work, illustrates the difference between that time and others, and shows also the gradual drop into the border which is merely a woven representation of a gilded wood frame to enclose the woven picture as a painted one would be framed.
Could any modern indicate by sophistry of brush or brain so intoxicating a fairyland, so gracious a field of dear delights? A minute study of all the details of costume and accessories is one of the measuring sticks with which we count the years of a tapestry's life.
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