BEST PERIODS AND THEIR DATES

Earliest Tapestry Looms Prehistoric

European Early Attempts Twelfth To Fourteenth Centuries

Arras and Burgundian Tapestry Early Fifteenth Century

Gothic Perfection, Flanders About Fifteen Hundred

Gothic Perfection, France About Fifteen Hundred

Italian Factories Fifteenth Century

Raphael Cartoons in Flanders 1515-1519

Renaissance Perfection, Flanders 1515 To Second Half of Century

Brussels Mark 1528

Flemish Decadence End of Sixteenth Century

French Rise End of Sixteenth Century

French Organisation 1597, Reign of Henri IV

English Supremacy, Mortlake Established 1619

Establishment of Gobelins 1662, Reign of Louis XIV

Best Heroic Period of Gobelins Last Half of Seventeenth Century

Best Decorative Period of Gobelins Middle of Eighteenth Century

Decadence of Gobelins End of Eighteenth Century

Recent Times, England, Wm. Morris End of Nineteenth Century

Recent Times, America End of Nineteenth Century