Flemish Verdure Tapestry
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Flemish verdure tapestries — from the French verdure, meaning "greenery" — were among the most prized woven textiles of the seventeenth century. Produced in the great weaving centers of Brussels, Oudenaarde, Aubusson, and Bruges, they hung in châteaux, country estates, and churches across Europe, where their dense foliage provided both decoration and insulation against cold stone walls. This example, woven sometime in the seventeenth century, hung in a church. The palette, dominated by the deep teal-blue greens characteristic of Flemish verdure, comes from the dyes available in seventeenth-century Flanders, particularly woad and weld, which produced the cool blue-green that gives these tapestries their distinctive atmosphere.