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Pursuit of knowledge in regard to the Gobelins factory leads us through ways the most flowery and ways the most stormy, through sunshine and through the dark, right up to our own times. Collection of Wm. See Loriquet, "Les Tapisseries de Notre Dame de Rheims." Colbert saw the wisdom of taking direction for the king, Louis XIV, of the looms of Foucquet's château.
Tapisseries des personnages have, as the name implies, the human figure as the prominent part of the design. The shuttle or bobbin of the high loom is called a broche, and that of the low loom a flute. Weavers throughout Europe, whether in the Low Countries or in France, were called tapissiers, and this term was so liberal as to need explaining.
For extensive reading see Guiffrey, "Nicolas Bataille, tapissier parisien," and "L'Histoire General de la Tapisserie," the section called "Les Tapisseries Francaises." Whether Arras began as early as Paris is a question better left unsettled if only for the sake of furnishing a subject of happy controversy between the champions of the two opinions.
See M. Pinchart, "Roger van der Weyden et les Tapisseries de Berne." Enguerrand de Monstrelet, "Chronicles."
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