Hotel Dieu tapistries
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It is not surprising to find so many beautiful tapestries at the Hospices de Beaune as the Dukes of Burgundy and the noble ones of their court were fond of tapestries and collected them. These luxury articles showed the material power of their owners. Moreover tapestries had the advantage of being able to be transported of a residence to another and to improve the thermo isolation of the walls to which they were hung. When their dimensions were not appropriate any more for the rooms to be decorated a part was just cut off! At the Hôtel-Dieu the visitor will see in the room of the Polyptyque a very wide (7,50 m) tapestry “thousand flowers” (Flanders) of the legend of Sint-Eloy. The other tapestries are in the Saint-Louis room. There are seven tapestries of Tournai (Belgium), begin 16th c., telling the Parabola of the Prodigal son. Others of Brussels, end 16th c., evoke the history of Jacob. The cartoon designer was Bernard van Orley what explains the superb quality. There is also a very beautiful French tapestry of Aubusson (17th c.) “The round dance of young people”. The “lissiers” tapestry weavers used two type of weaving loom: the horizontal loom called “basse lisse” and the vertical one “haute lisse”. In both case the weavers worked on the back side. It has been calculated that one “lissier” would weave about 1 square meter in one month!
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