tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50400787999106536502024-03-17T05:29:15.384-07:00Tapestry TourTapestry Tourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701653035274472760noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040078799910653650.post-10499094750408070282018-08-26T21:42:00.000-07:002018-08-26T21:42:50.823-07:00Tapestry Tour 2019<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E13158; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 22.0pt;">Mastering the Fine Art of Tapestry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 14.0pt;">19<sup>th</sup> May – 1st June 2019<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "optima"; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Discover the historical
context and contemporary forms of this rich, tactile medium as practiced for
centuries in some of the most beautiful settings in the world, and participate
in a unique learning experience of this timeless art. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "optima"; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">You will see the sublime
high points of Mediaeval craftsmanship embodied in the 15<sup>th</sup> C.
suites of the <b>Lady and the Unicorn</b> and the 14<sup>th </sup>C. <b>Apocalypse</b>.
In Paris you will tour the famed <b>Royal Gobelins Workshop</b> and delight in
the treasures of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Musée du Moyen Age.
</b>For the first time we will be visiting the town of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Beauvais</b>, to see the historic tapestry centre. In the beautiful
Loire Valley town of Angers, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Musée
Lurçat</b> and studio visits to contemporary tapestry artists will deepen your
appreciation of the traditions and techniques of tapestry that still inform the
creation of modern works of art. In Albi we will be seeing the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Musée Lautrec, </b>and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Musée Dom Robert</b> in the spectacular
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will be rounded off with a three day stay in <b>Aubusson</b>, to explore the
town in the heart of the Creuse that is synonymous with this craft, and enjoy
the revitalisation of the tapestry industry here since 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000090; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 16.0pt;">DAY 1 </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000090; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Sunday May 19th<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Musée du Moyen Age. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "optima"; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">The most important and long running workshop in
the world situated in the 13th arondissement, Manufacture des Gobelins was
founded as a dye works in the mid-15th century by Jean Gobelin. In 1662, Louis
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artisans, creating a royal tapestry and furniture works. It has specialised in
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Angers. This historic town in the Loire Valley yields one of the most exciting
experiences of the tour, viewing the 100 metre long 14th C. <b>Apocalypse </b>tapestry,
the Book of Revelations made visible. Housed in the fortress chateau it is an
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stroll through the Mediaeval town to make an afternoon visit to the <b>Cathedrale
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magnificent Apocalypse, his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Song of the
World </b>suite of ten tapestries woven from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s reflecting
on the atom bomb, the apocalyptic event of the 20<sup>th</sup> C. They are
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existed on its weaving industry since the 14<sup>th</sup>C. For the first time
we will be staying in this pretty Mediaeval setting and experiencing all it has
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from Aubusson to view the historic workshop of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ateliers Pinton</b>, <span style="color: blue;">www.ateliers-pinton.com </span>one
of two remaining manufacturers that employs teams of weavers to make tapestries
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market operates on Friday mornings, so we will indulge in a picnic lunch. Then
an afternoon visit to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Église du
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mentioned in the itinerary are subject to availability and others of similar
quality may be substituted. This itinerary has been prepared with the
assistance of <b>Ian Jane </b>at Bentleigh Travel who will be making all tour
bookings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">BENTLEIGH
TRAVEL CENTRE <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Shop 7,
271 - 275 Centre Road <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Victoria 3204<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 22.000000pt;"> Mastering the Fine Art of Tapestry </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 22.000000pt;">only in France!
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 100.000000%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 16.000000pt;">with
Cresside Collette
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 14.000000pt;">11th – 24th September 2017
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Discover the historical context and contemporary forms of this rich, tactile
medium as practiced for centuries in some of the most beautiful settings in the
world, and participate in a hands-on learning experience of this timeless art.
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">You will see the sublime high points of Mediaeval craftsmanship embodied in
the 15</span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 7pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">th </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">C. suites of the </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Lady and the Unicorn </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">and the 14</span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 7pt; vertical-align: 5pt;">th </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">C. </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Apocalypse</span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">In Paris you will tour the famed </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Royal Gobelins Workshop </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">and delight in the
treasures of the </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Musée du Moyen Age. </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">A visit to the historic centre of </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Angers </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">to
see the </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Musée Lurçat </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">will deepen your appreciation of the traditions and
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">And for the first time we will be seeing the </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Musée Dom Robert </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in the spectacular
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This exciting study tour will be rounded off with a three day workshop at the
</span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Manoir du Bost </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in the heart of France to learn tapestry technique first hand.
Conducted by Cresside Collette, tapestry artist, scholar and teacher, it will
include day trips to nearby </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Aubusson </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Felletin, </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the towns in the heart of the
Creuse that are synonymous with this craft.
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">La Dame à la Licorne</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #e06666; color: #20124d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">PARIS, 2 DAYS</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #000090; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">DAY 1 </span><span style="color: #000090; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 16pt;">Monday September 11</span><span style="color: #000090; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 6pt;">th</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Check into Hotel Central St. Germain, 3, Rue Champollion, 75005, Paris. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Left Bank location is well situated for all our activities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">http://centralsaintgermain.com/</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A walk around the corner brings us to the wonderful treasures of the Middle Ages
housed in the </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Musée du Moyen Age.
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 100.000000%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">www.musee-moyenage.fr/ang/index.html
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This year we will celebrate the sublime </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">La Dame à la Licorne </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in its renovated
setting. Other suites of Mediaeval tapestries on view include The story of St.
Stephen, The Offering of the Heart and Aristocratic Life.
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A free afternoon follows to experience the delights and galleries of this great city.
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<span style="color: #000090; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">DAY 2 </span><span style="color: #000090; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 16pt;">Tuesday September 12</span><span style="color: #000090; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 9pt; vertical-align: 6pt;">th</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A free morning, then a special guided tour of the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Gobelins Tapestry Workshop.</span></span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 100.000000%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">http://www.mobiliernational.culture.gouv.fr/en/practical-information/paris-
gobelins
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The most important and long running workshop in the world situated in the 13th
arondissement, Manufacture des Gobelins was founded as a dye works in the
mid-15th century by Jean Gobelin. In 1662, Louis XIV purchased the
manufactory, and minister Colbert united all the royal artisans, creating a royal
tapestry and furniture works. It has specialised in tapestry from 1697.
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 10pt;">Lurçat at
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Private coach to Angers. This historic town in the Loire Valley yields one of the
most exciting experiences of the tour, viewing the 100 metre long 14th C.
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Apocalypse </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">tapestry, the Book of Revelations made visible. Housed in the fortress
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develop a real understanding of its brilliant technique. Beginners will learn to set
up a tapestry frame and weave basic shapes. More advanced students will be
encouraged to experiment with Mediaeval tapestry techniques such as hatching
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<span style="font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Located a thirty minute ride from the manoir, this pretty town in the heart of
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">All breakfasts</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">All museum and gallery entry charges specified in itinerary </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">All meals at the Manoir du Bost</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Private coach transfer from Paris to Angers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Private coach transfer from Angers to Toulouse</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Excursion from Toulouse to Sorèze</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Private coach transfer from Toulouse to Bourganeuf</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Two excursions to Aubusson and Felletin</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Private coach transfer to Paris</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">French speaking guide in Aubusson, Felletin</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tutored 3 day tapestry workshop with Cresside Collette </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Loom hire and materials.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">Meals apart from breakfast, except at the Manoir </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lunch at Aubusson and Felletin (2 days)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Hotels mentioned in the itinerary are subject to availability and others of similar
quality may be substituted.</span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This itinerary has been prepared with the assistance of
</span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Ian Jane </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">at Bentleigh Travel who will be making all tour bookings.
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<span style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">BENTLEIGH TRAVEL CENTRE</span><span style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;"></span><span style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Telephone: +61 3 9557 5898</span><span style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">
</span><span style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">Fax: +61 3 9557 4786</span><span style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Shop 7, 271 - 275 Centre Road </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Victoria 3204</span><br />
<span style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Email: ian@bentleightravel.com.au
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<span style="color: #00006d; font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12pt;">Tour designed and authored by Cresside Collette, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016,
2017.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contact: cressidecollette@gmail.com</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Read about the 2012 Tapestry Tour at </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000% , 0.000000% , 42.745100%); font-family: "optima"; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">tapestrytour.blogspot.com
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Tapestry Tourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701653035274472760noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040078799910653650.post-66947320983613129542015-11-11T17:58:00.001-08:002015-11-11T17:58:14.746-08:00Tapestry Tour 2016
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;"> "Mastering the Fine Art of Tapestry"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Optima; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Cresside Collette<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">6th – 24th September 2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">From London to Aubusson
- a European adventure to discover the historical context and contemporary
forms of this rich, tactile medium and participate in a hands - on learning
experience of this timeless art. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">You will see the sublime
high points of Mediaeval craftsmanship embodied in the 15th C. suites of <b>The
Devonshire Hunts</b>, the <b>Lady and the Unicorn</b> and the <b>Apocalypse</b>
of Angers. A visit to the <b>V & A</b>
in London will reveal the magnificence of the <b>Raphael cartoons</b> for the
famous suite of Classical tapestries designed for Pope Leo X in 1515, and time
will be spent in the new <b>Mediaeval and Renaissance </b>galleries. You will visit the private
studios of contemporary tapestry artists working in London and Exeter, and the
historic <b>Cotehele House</b> in Cornwall.
In Paris you will tour the famed <b>Royal Gobelins Workshop</b> and delight in
the treasures of the <b>Musée des Arts Decoratifs</b>
and the <b>Musée du Moyen Age.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">This exciting study tour
will be rounded off with a three day workshop at the <b>Manoir du Bost</b> in
the heart of France to learn tapestry technique first hand. Conducted by
Cresside Collette, tapestry artist, scholar and teacher, it will include day
trips to nearby <b>Aubusson</b>, the beautiful French town that is synonymous
with this craft.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000090; font-family: Optima; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">DAY 1 </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000090; font-family: Optima; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Tuesday September
6th<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Visit to<b> The Victoria
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will include viewing the 15thC tapestry suite, the <b>Devonshire Hunts,</b> <b>Raphael's
cartoons for the Acts of the Apostles, </b>and the<b> Mediaeval and Renaissance
galleries.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Afternoon visit the <b>Clothworkers Centre </b>by appointment to view
selected tapestries in the V&A collection<span style="color: #3366ff;">. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/v/visiting-the-clothworkers-centre-for-textiles-and-fashion-study-and-conservation/<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000090; font-family: Optima; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">DAY 2 </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000090; font-family: Optima; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Wednesday
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">A day at <b>Hampton Court Palace, </b>where the
collection includes <b>The Story of Abraham</b>, the sumptuous Renaissance
tapestries commissioned by Henry VIII. We will have a special tour
concentrating on the tapestries in the collection. <span style="color: blue;">www.hrp.org.uk/aboutus/whatwedo/collectionscare/vrtapestrieshamptoncourt</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Then a studio visit to
masterful contemporary tapestry artist <b>William
Jefferies </b>at Kew Gardens, on the way back to London. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Minibus to Rickmansworth to visit artist <b>Anna Ray,</b> </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.annaray.co.uk/tapestry/"><span style="color: #0b00ee; font-family: Optima; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.annaray.co.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">whose innovative work is
redefining concepts of textiles and tapestry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">On to the <b>Henry Moore Foundation</b>
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Tapestry Artist <b>Anne Jackson </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.annejackson.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">http://www.annejackson.co.uk</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Jilly Edwards </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">http://www.jillyedwards.co.uk</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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manor set deep in the Cornish countryside that is home to an amazing array of
tapestry and embroidery. Mostly dating from the 17thC, textiles comprise the
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Germain, 3, Rue Champollion, 75005, Paris. The Left Bank location is well
situated for all our activities. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://centralsaintgermain.com/"><span style="font-family: Optima;">http://centralsaintgermain.com/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">An afternoon tour of the <b>Gobelins Tapestry Workshop, </b></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.museums-of/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.museums-of</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;"> paris.com/musee_en.php?code=349</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">, the most
important and long running workshop in the world, situated in the 13th
arondissement. The Manufacture des Gobelins was founded as a dye works in the
mid-15th century by Jean Gobelin. In 1662, Louis XIV purchased the manufactory,
and minister Colbert united all the royal artisans, creating a royal tapestry
and furniture works. It has specialised in tapestry from 1697.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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entrance and celebrate the return of the sublime <b>La Dame à la Licorne </b>to a renovated setting. Other suites of Mediaeval
tapestries including The story of St. Stephen, The Offering of the Heart and
Aristocratic Life are also on view. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</b>enjoying the best of the decorative arts, from<b> </b>Mediaeval to Modern.
Walk across the manicured gardens to the courtyard of the <b>Louvre</b> and
marvel at the art or stroll in the adjoining <b>Tuileries</b> to fill in the
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yields one of the most exciting experiences of the tour, viewing the 100 metre
long 14th C. <b>Apocalypse</b> tapestry,
the Book of Revelations made visible. Housed in the fortress chateau it is an
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima;">After booking into a quaint country style hotel, The
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designs were drawn by Jean Bondol based on illuminated manuscripts, and the
weaving was overseen by Nicolas Bataille whose workshops also produced the
Apocalypse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to see the <b>Apocalypse</b> and explore
the many delights of the garden and buildings, then a stroll along the river to
see Lurçat's answer to the magnificent Apocalypse, his <b>Song of the World </b>suite of ten tapestries woven from the mid 1950s
to the mid 1960s reflecting on the atom bomb, the apocalyptic event of the 20<sup>th</sup>
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<b>St. John's Hospital</b>, adjoined by the
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accommodation in this splendid, secluded manor house in central France offers a
unique opportunity to learn the basics of Tapestry Weaving and develop a real
understanding of its brilliant technique. Beginners will learn to set up a
tapestry frame and weave basic shapes. More advanced students will be
encouraged to experiment with Mediaeval tapestry techniques such as hatching to
achieve colour gradations, and to adapt them to a contemporary style. Or just
relax, read, paint and draw in a beautiful setting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima;">Located a thirty
minute ride from the manoir, this pretty town in the heart of France has
existed on its weaving industry since the 14<sup>th</sup>C. Under the guidance
of <b>Susanne Bouret</b>, conservator of
textiles and local resident, we will stroll its streets and visit the
individual<b> ateliers</b> open to the
public as well as visiting more formal centres such as the <b>Musee de la Tapisserie</b>.<span style="color: blue;">www.cite-tapisserie.fr</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima;">France Odile Perrin-Crinere</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima;"> runs studio Atelier A2. <span style="color: blue;">www.ateliera2.fr<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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tapestry cartoons and has built a cartoon museum for their display and
preservation in a picturesque building on the Pont de la Terrade. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to Felletin, a small town 10 km. from Aubusson to view the historic workshop of
<b>Ateliers Pinton</b>, <span style="color: blue;">www.ateliers-pinton.com </span>one of two remaining
manufacturers that employs teams of weavers to make tapestries and also
produces rugs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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market operates on Friday mornings, so we will indulge in a picnic lunch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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afternoon visit to the <b>Eglise du Chateau</b>
to see the annual tapestry exhibition that incorporates the most innovative
work produced in the previous year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with Susanne Bouret at the Manoir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Read about the 2012 Tapestry Tour at <b>tapestrytour.blogspot.com<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">Date and length of tour:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;"> 19 days starting in London
and finishing in Paris from September 6th to 24th, 2016. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">Cost:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;"> $7,275.00 (AUD) for twin share,
$8,695.00 (AUD) for single room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">All
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breakfasts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">All museum
and gallery entry charges specified in itinerary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">All meals
at the Manoir du Bost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">All
private coach, minibus and transfers in the UK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Flight
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Paris
Visite Pass - 5 day/ zones 1- 3 Metro pass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rail from Paris to Angers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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speaking guide in Aubusson, Felletin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Tutored 3
day tapestry workshop with Cresside Collette<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Tour price
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London and from Paris<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Travel
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Meals
apart from breakfast, except at the Manoir<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Lunch at
Aubusson and Felletin (2 days)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Hotels
mentioned in the itinerary are subject to availability and others of similar
quality may be substituted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">This
itinerary has been prepared with the assistance of <b>Ian Jane</b> at Bentleigh
Travel who will be making all tour bookings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">BENTLEIGH
TRAVEL CENTRE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Telephone:
+61 3 9557 5898<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Fax: +61 3
9557 4786<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Shop 7,
271 - 275 Centre Road, P.O. Box 20, Bentleigh 3204, Victoria, Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">Email:
ian@bentleightravel.com.au<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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designed and authored by Cresside Collette, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima;">From London to Aubusson - a
European adventure to discover the historical context and contemporary forms of
this rich, tactile medium and participate in a hands on learning experience of
this timeless art in a small exclusive interest group. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima;">You will see the sublime
high points of Mediaeval craftsmanship embodied in the 15th C. suites of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Devonshire Hunts</b>, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lady and the Unicorn</b> and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Apocalypse</b> of Angers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima;">A visit to Stirling Castle
in Scotland will reveal the re-woven <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hunt
of the Unicorn</b> suite by the West Dean Tapestry Studio, an amazing exercise
in reproducing the art of the Middle Ages. At the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">V & A</b> in London we will see the magnificence of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Raphael cartoons</b> for the famous
Classical tapestries designed for Pope Leo X in 1515, and time will be spent in
the new <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mediaeval and Renaissance </b>galleries.
You will visit the private studios of contemporary tapestry artists working in
London and Edinburgh, and for the first time you will have the opportunity to
participate in a workshop conducted by renowned Scottish artist <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Linda Green</b>. We will also be guided
through the famed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Royal Gobelins
Workshop</b> and experience the wonderful Mediaeval delights of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Musee du Moyen Age</b> in Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima;">This exciting study tour
will be rounded off with a four day workshop at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manoir du Bost</b> in the heart of France to learn tapestry technique
first hand. Conducted by Cresside Collette, tapestry artist, scholar and
teacher, it will include day trips to nearby <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aubusson</b>, the beautiful French town that is synonymous with this
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South Kensington. Highlights will include viewing the 15<sup>th</sup> C.
tapestry suite, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Devonshire Hunts,</b>
Raphael's cartoons for<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Acts of the Apostles, </b>and the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Mediaeval and Renaissance galleries.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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day at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hampton Court Palace, </b>where
the collection includes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Story of
Abraham</b>, the sumptuous Renaissance tapestries commissioned by Henry VIII. The
Tudor gardens are a special delight and a visit to the famous textile conservation
studio is being negotiated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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artist <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">William Jefferies </b>at Kew
Gardens, on the way back to London. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to Rickmansworth to visit artist <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Anna
Ray,</b> </span><a href="http://www.annaray.co.uk/tapestry/"><span style="color: #0b00ee; font-family: Optima; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.annaray.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">whose innovative work is
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Foundation</b> </span><a href="http://www.henry-moore.org/"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Optima; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.henry-moore.org</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
</b><span style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">at Perry
Green, the home of Henry Moore for forty years, to view the spectacular
tapestries woven at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">West Dean</b> studio
from his drawings and displayed in the Aisled Barn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lovely grounds include his outdoor sculpture, two large studios, a gallery and
his charming house, Hoglands. </span></div>
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visit to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dovecot Studios</b> </span><a href="http://www.dovecotstudios.com/"><span style="font-family: Optima;">www.dovecotstudios.com</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Optima;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima;">The
historic Edinburgh Tapestry Company was established in 1912 under the patronage
of the Marquess of Bute and originally located in Costorphine, a suburb of
Edinburgh. Its internationally celebrated director in the 1960s and 70s was
Archie Brennan, who validated tapestry as a vital 20<sup>th </sup>C. art form, and
whose ideas served as a model for the establishment of the Victorian Tapestry
Workshop in Melbourne in 1976. In 2008 the Dovecot Studios moved to their
beautiful new premises, the former Baths in Infirmary Street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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visit to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WASPS</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Studios</b>. The Tapestry course at the Edinburgh College of Art gave
rise to the establishment of the artist/weaver and the proliferation of
individual studio practice around the world. Many former graduates are based
here and we will visit <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jo Barker </b>and
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fiona Hutchison.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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day Workshop with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Linda Green. </b></span><a href="http://www.studiogreen.me/"><span style="font-family: Optima;">http://www.studiogreen.me</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Optima;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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unique opportunity to create an individual Artist’s book with a renowned
tapestry artist in her own studio, and see a presentation on her work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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transferred to the left bank Hotel Central St. Germain, 3, Rue Champollion, 75005,
Paris. </span><a href="http://centralsaintgermain.com/"><span style="font-family: Optima;">http://centralsaintgermain.com/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></div>
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market street, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rue Mouffetard,</b> for
an afternoon visit to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Gobelins
Tapestry Workshop, </b><span style="color: blue;">www.museums-of
paris.com/musee_en.php?code=349</span>, the most important and long running
workshop in the world, situated in the 13th arondissement. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Optima; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The Manufacture des Gobelins was founded as a dye works in the mid 15th
century by Jean Gobelin. In 1662, Louis XIV purchased the Gobelins manufactory
and his minister Colbert united all the royal artisans to create a royal
tapestry and furniture works specialising in tapestry from 1697.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mediaeval tapestries including The story of St. Stephen, The Offering of the
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<span style="font-family: Optima;">A morning at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Musee des Arts Decoratifs<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="color: blue;">www.lesartsdecratifs.fr</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>enjoying the best of the decorative
arts, from<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Mediaeval to Modern. Walk
across the manicured gardens to the courtyard of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Louvre</b> and marvel at the art or stroll in the adjoining <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tuileries</b> to fill in the afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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yields one of the most exciting experiences of the tour, viewing the 100 metre
long 14th C. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Apocalypse</b> tapestry,
the Book of Revelations made visible. Housed in the fortress chateau it is an
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booking into a quaint country style hotel, The Hotel du Mail, <span style="color: blue;">http//www.hotel du</span> <span style="color: blue;">mail </span>we
stroll through the Mediaeval town to make an</span><span style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;"> afternoon</span><span style="font-family: Optima;"> visit to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cathedral </b>that
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Maurille</b>. Woven in 1378-81 for the Cathedral, the designs were drawn by
Jean Bondol based on illuminated manuscripts, and the weaving was overseen by
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the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Apocalypse</b> and explore the many
delights of the garden and buildings, then a stroll along the river to see
Lurcat's answer to the magnificent Apocalypse, his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Song of the World </b>suite of ten tapestries woven from the mid 1950s
to the mid 1960s reflecting on the atom bomb, the apocalyptic event of the 20<sup>th</sup>
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John's Hospital</b>, adjoined by the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Museum
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France offers a unique opportunity to learn the basics of Tapestry Weaving and
develop a real understanding of its brilliant technique. Beginners will learn
to set up a tapestry frame and weave basic shapes. More advanced students will
be encouraged to experiment with Mediaeval tapestry techniques such as hatching
to achieve colour gradations, and to adapt them to a contemporary style. Or
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<span style="font-family: Optima;">Located a thirty minute
ride from the manoir, this pretty town in the heart of France has existed on
its weaving industry since the 14<sup>th</sup> C. Under the guidance of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Susanne Bouret</b>, conservator of textiles
and local resident, we will stroll its streets and visit the individual<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> ateliers</b> open to the public as well as
visiting more formal centres such as the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Musee
de la Tapisserie</b>.<span style="color: blue;">www.cite-tapisserie.fr</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Optima;">France Odile Perrin-Crinere</span></b><span style="font-family: Optima;"> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Martine
Stamm</b> run studio Atelier A2. <span style="color: blue;">www.ateliera2.fr<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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cartoons and has built a cartoon museum for their display and preservation in a
picturesque building on the Pont de la Terrade. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima;">The conservation studio of <b>Susanne Bouret</b> is
at the Terrade, next door to the Chirac <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Musee
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<span style="font-family: Optima;">We will travel to Felletin,
a small town 10 km. from Aubusson to view the historic workshop of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ateliers Pinton</b>, <span style="color: blue;">www.ateliers-pinton.com </span>one of two remaining
manufacturers that employs teams of weavers to make tapestries and also
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annual tapestry exhibition that incorporates the most innovative work produced
in the previous year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00006d; font-family: Optima; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Optima; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Read about the 2012 Tapestry Tour at <b>tapestrytour.blogspot.com</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">Date and length of tour:</span></b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;"> 20 days starting in London and finishing
in Paris from September 7th to 26th, 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">Cost:</span></b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;"> $6,950.00 (AUD) for twin share, $8,695.00 (AUD) for single
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gallery entry charges<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">All meals at the
Manoir du Bost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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transfers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from London King's Cross to Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from Edinburgh – Stirling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">Tutored 1day
workshop with Linda Green<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to Edinburgh airport<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flight from Edinburgh to Paris<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pass - 3 day/ zones 1- 3 Metro pass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tapestry workshop with Cresside Collette<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the itinerary are subject to availability and others of similar quality may
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">This itinerary
has been prepared with the assistance of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ian
Jane</b> at Bentleigh Travel who will be making all tour bookings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">BENTLEIGH TRAVEL CENTRE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">Shop 7, 271 - 275 Centre Road, P. O. Box
20, Bentleigh 3204, Victoria, Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">Email: ian@bentleightravel.com.au<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Optima;">Tour designed
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On Friday our minibus driver took us to the town of <b>Felletin</b>, to view only one of two viable workshops left in the area, the historic <b>Ateliers Pinton</b>. It happened to be a day off for the tapestry weavers, so unfortunately we did not see them at the loom but this is a workshop run in the traditional manner where they copy the artwork in faithful reproduction from a carefully numbered cartoon. On my first visit we were fortunate to meet and speak with the "cartonniere", an attractive young woman who was sitting on the floor laboriously outlining the areas of colour for the weavers to follow. The designs, by British artist <b>Ahmed Moustafa</b>, were intimidatingly large and complicated but alive with luminous bands of colour enlivened by gold thread. Also destined for the Cite, they will be a stunning addition to the collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Cartonnier at work numbering the cartoon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A Moustafa on the loom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This time there were two finished tapestries hanging in the foyer that had been commissioned by their designer, Tissot. Two cubist cockerels woven in single and double weave in a very dated, 1950s style. I was horrified to find that they had been nailed up to wooden battens for hanging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The workshop also makes tufted rugs and carpets, so we started our visit there, first in a showroom full of samples that catered to hotels and other public buildings. Sample books illustrated the variety and extent of their range of sculpted finishes in neutral colours. We went on to see the making, cutting and finishing in various studios. Once again we were agog at the lack of health and safety regulations. Two women were working with tufting guns without masks, punching wool and cotton into a fabric made of synthetic material. The air was dense with floating fibres that caught in the throat, and the floor a minefield of tangled cords and deep chasms between concrete slabs that act as drains. We asked about occupational health and safety and they assured us that no such thing was enforced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Downstairs, in the quiet of the tapestry studio we were able to examine in detail the pieces that were on the looms. There was an edition of a <b>Leger</b> and two Moustafas, impossibly detailed. Characteristic of French weaving the warps were spaced very closely, creating a warp based rather than weft based fabric woven with two, three or five strands of fine wool. The weavers are definitely skilled artisans, closely following their numbered cartoons with no individual creative input.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Afterwards we walked up the hill to the centre of the village where the traditional Friday market was in full swing, meandering through the cobbled lanes of the town and bursting with local produce. We had a lovely time investigating everything and buying some food for a picnic lunch that we ate sitting in the grounds of the church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">unicorn tapestry, <i>Peau de Licorne, </i>that we saw on the loom last year at <b>Patrick Guillot’s</b> workshop being the focus. Designed by <b>Nicolas Buffe</b>, it is displayed as a floor piece and is a contemporary version of the hallowed unicorn, shaped like the flayed skin of the animal complete with Limoges porcelain head and hoofs! Woven in black and white, the design is incredibly complex with highly detailed vignettes throughout, which, when observed closely draw inspiration from amongst other things, Japanese Manga cartoons. Old and new combined in an absolute collision of ideas. Patrick's hands flew deftly over these finest of details and we learned a new stitch (derived from Soumak, I think) that outlined beautifully the most delicate forms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Other works in the exhibition included a conceptual piece by </span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Bernard Battu</b><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> and the artist </span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Jacques</b><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Harambaru</b><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">. It comprised a large "filet"net hung from the wall, weighted shells and rocks caught in its folds. An embroidered needlepoint three dimensional unicorn dragged a male torso in its wake, quite bizarre and very brightly coloured. A very curious inclusion was a cartoon for </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">La Dame a la Licorne,</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> dating from the 1940s and ostensibly created for the weaving of editions, upon which the little animals were pasted on separate pieces of paper for ease of shifting them around.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We then boarded our bus and headed to Aubusson for our last visit there. Our first stop was to meet <b>Patrick Guillot</b> who was working in the ENSA building on a large commission for a Government building that is decorated in 18th C. style. Patrick was quite effusive and talked at length about his contribution as creative collaborator on the project. The design was an unusual amalgam of fruit, flowers, shells and story book creatures cavorting on a background that mimicked a pattern of green moire silk. Ribbons of text also wound their way around the subjects. The loom was warped in two different warp settings with some very closely spaced bands of warp inserted to cope with the fine detail. Patrick's skill is consummate as he interprets the impossibly difficult work with alarming speed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The re-invigorated tapestry school has produced its first batch of ten graduates and we briefly viewed their samplers and projects that were on view in another building. It was great to see the budding future of a real tapestry revival in a town that is synonymous with this craft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> A walk through the old town brought us to the atelier and shop of <b>Chantal Chirac</b>, perched on the side of the river on the Pont de la Terrade, and stuffed with the most amazing array of artwork and furniture which seems to cheerily overflow from the constraints of its surrounds. She restores old tapestry cartoons and we observed roll upon roll of them, mostly 18th C. designs in full colour from which exact copies would have been made in tapestry. A large building next door has been built in sympathetic style to house a private cartoon museum. The charming <b>Musee des Cartonnes </b>has been skilfully designed with views out to the river, and is comprised of four or five rooms of painted cartoons from the last three centuries in an interesting display. A downstairs area exhibited a retrospective of tapestries designed by <b>Antonia Bory</b>, who is now in her nineties. Chantal's husband Bernard treated us to an amusing overview as he grappled valiantly with English translations of his very French expressions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And so back to the Manoir on our minibus, and our final dinner cooked by the lovely Valerie. Susanne joined us for a delicious farewell dinner of delicate coquilles St. Jacques, one of the most classic French dishes. There was much happy chatter, giving of gifts and very emotional goodbyes. My fondest wish is to return in 2013. Our meals were so special that I have listed Valerie's menus here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Filet mignon of pork cooked with sage - fresh pasta - pear tart with caramel sauce</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Poached fish – vegetables - crumble</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Poisson poché – julienne de légumes –crumble </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Marinated chicken with a confit of ratatouille - white chocolate and raspberry dessert</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Poulet mariné -confit de ratatouille-verrine chocolat blanc framboises</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Vegetable lasagna – salad - cooked pears with spices</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On Tuesday morning our minibus picked us up for our first visit to Aubusson, a forty five minute journey through the town of <b>Bourganeuf</b> and pretty country vistas interspersed with a couple of tiny roadside villages. <b>Susanne Bouret </b>was waiting at the old train station car park. The train service stopped many years ago but the Gare Routier sign is still there as though waiting to be reawakened. It was wonderful to see her again, a moment I had really been looking forward to. After the many introductions we set off on our excursion over the Pont Neuf bridge, crossing a little arm of the Creuse River that winds through the town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Although this picturesque town has survived on the weaving industry since the 14th C. and its many individual ateliers have been open to public view for decades, Susanne explained that in the last twenty years production has declined due to the poor economic climate and the fact that many weavers have reached retirement age without a generation of younger people to follow them into the craft. However, in 2009 <b>Aubusson</b> and <b>Felletin</b> tapestry received the title of <b>"Intangible Cultural Heritage"</b> from UNESCO to try to save and regenerate the art form and inject some new energy into its practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our first visit was to <b>Atelier 2</b>, run by <b>France - Odile Perrin-Criniere</b> and <b>Martine Stamm</b>. Their studio is behind a well designed shopfront exhibition area which displays many of their tapestries in a great variety of form, colour and sizes. They also run classes in this bright, airy space. What interested us most was their practice, tucked away behind the shop. And so began our conversations, with Susanne's expert translations that interpreted every nuance of our questions and their answers, building a bridge of understanding and camaraderie between weavers, establishing and reinforcing the "common language" of our chosen craft. Everyone, without exception, was generous with their time and tremendously patient with the process. Because it was my second visit to them, our communication was a lot more "chatty". We agreed about the nature of contemporary architecture's propensity to discourage tapestry commissions as these days the buildings are considered sculptural works of art in their own right with feature walls that are curved and shaped or incorporate decorative elements into their design. As hardworking artist/weavers they were also amused at the slow rate of production expected of the weavers at the Gobelins, and had read that that it took them three months to dye a single colour!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">France-Odile was working on a large, commissioned tapestry in low warp technique (as do all the Aubusson weavers). It was a many hued abstract design that she had first painted in gouache, then manipulated through a computer program and finally printed as her cartoon that lay beneath the finely warped loom. We were always amazed at the rigours of the low warp technique - the fineness of the warp settings, the proliferation of bobbins used and the back breaking technique of weaving complex imagery from the back of the tapestry, using mirrors poked between the warp threads to examine the front. </span><br />
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Martine was also at work in the studio on a photoshopped version of Monet's bridge at Giverny. The colours were quite bizarre and she found it a difficult exercise capturing the fluid nature of the artwork in woven form. She often works on vibrant pieces in collaboration with her husband, a sculptor in granite. In these works the hardness of the etched and polished stone sets off the soft, colour saturated wool. </span><br />
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We walked across the cobbled streets to meet master dyer, <b>Thierry Roger</b>, the only one left in Aubusson. It was the craft of dyeing that had brought tapestry to Aubusson all those centuries ago, aided by the chemical composition of the Creuse. He inhabited a small, open dwelling which had seen a lifetime of use, every surface testament to accretions of colour. It was hot work on a warm day as he raised and lowered the steaming hanks into a dye bath, checked them and infused them again. He had everyone in thrall as he guesstimated the smidgeons of colour to be added to the heated baths and dipped the the hanks into their boiling recesses. When he raised them they had turned from pale yellow to a luminescent acid green.</span><br />
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Open pots of tincture lay on a table and Mr Roger would add the merest shred, by eye, to change a tone. He showed us a painting that he had been sent to match, his visual repertoire so acute that he could reproduce the colours exactly in wool. We bought some yarn from his tiny shop with its enticing rainbow shelves, and were surprised to learn that it is spun from Australian and New Zealand merino. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our next visit was to the garden of a property high above the town where Susanne had her conservation studio. The building was most interesting - it had been a famous 19th C. tapestry and carpet weaving manufactory and sits in a delightful, walled garden full of old roses. The tapestry workshop was last owned by <b>Suzanne Goubely</b>, who worked with a famous tapestry designer of Aubusson, <b>Dom Robert</b>, who was also a monk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We unpacked our lunch and sat in a circle on pieces of garden furniture, a good opportunity for everyone to get to know Susanne. Upstairs, her textile conservation studio is housed in a large room that still has old looms and hanks of wool left over from its previous life. Susanne showed us her latest tasks in hand, a tapestry dating from the 1950s that was an abstraction of Uccello's <i>The Rout of San Romano </i>that needed extensive cleaning, and a quite crudely woven 17th C. tapestry that had been badly stitched together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our final destination that day was the former Musee Departmental de la Tapisserie that has been absorbed by the <b>Cite Internationale de la Tapisserie</b> <b>et de l'Art tisse.</b> Established as the heart of the project to oversee the revival of Aubusson tapestry, it will be relocated in 2015 to the Ecole Nationale Superieur des Arts building once it is renovated. We were shown around a special exhibition by the curator, <b>Bruno Ythier</b>. Entitled <i><b>Tapisserie Art Deco, a L' Exposition Internationale, Paris, 1925</b>, </i>it occupied most of the gallery space. Concentrating on the tapestry exhibits at the Grand Palais in that year, the settings of chairs, carpets and wall decorations had been faithfully reassembled with the help of the <b>Mobilier Nationale</b> in Paris. All the work had been woven in Beauvais, Aubusson and at the Gobelins. Highly figurative, it bore more relation visually to Art Nouveau and the Pre - Raphaelite aesthetic rather than the clean, decorative lines to which we accord the name Art Deco. Romantic trysts in enchanted forests and anthropomorphised animals abounded.</span><br />
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Mr. Ythier gave us an animated description, Susanne translating all the way. The exhibition culminated in a room of Aubusson student work of the era. An innovative teacher at the time, <b>Antoine Marius - Martin</b> had insisted on dispensing with highly detailed, painted colour cartoons and had gone back to using simple, black and white line drawings to encourage the students to find weaving solutions to their interpretations. A course of action that Archie Brennan would definitely have approved of! Unfortunately a difference in the results were not altogether apparent.</span><br />
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Each year the Cite runs an International design competition to foster innovation in tapestry and we were able to view the design proposals and the tapestry samples of the winners in the past two years. In 2011 I was also fortunate to visit the studio of master weaver <b>Benard Battu</b> as he worked on one of the winning designs by <b>Olivier Nottellet</b>, a graphic work in three colours with allusions to a mysterious landscape, and <b>Patrick Guillot</b> as he wove <i>Peau de Licorne </i>by <b>Nicolas Buffe</b>. These works will form the core contemporary collection of the Cite and act as a drawcard to encourage further International commissions from Aubusson weavers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We were picked up from the Hotel du Mail by an enthusiastic young man, Nicolas, who turned out not to be our driver for the five hour journey to Bourganeuf. I felt a bit sorry that we wouldn't benefit from his extrovert style, but he was only to drive us to the bus station in <b>Saumur</b> (home to the most beautiful, fairytale castle of all), where he was traded for the elegant and diminutive Anne Marie who drove us impeccably all the way in shiny, black, very high heels! But not before he'd swung past his home town of<b> Brissac</b> and its impressive chateau that sits comfortably on the main street. It has been in the same family for 600 years, and the area is known for its production of sweet white wine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And so to Aubusson, the Manoir and the truly incomparable week of our tour! It was a warm, summery day and the countryside shimmered in the sunshine, all blue skies and golden fields criss-crossed with banks of verdant trees and the presence of the river never far away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Manoir is buried deep in the country, five kilometers from the village of <b>Bourganeuf</b> in the Creuse district. As we wound around small, curving roads in our big coach I was delighted to be able to recognise the turn off immediately, much to the relief of Anne Marie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Situated in rolling fields with a stand of immensely tall trees for protection, the 250 year old Manoir is indeed magnificent. Built of grey stone in three storeys, its white shuttered windows yield to the sun on both sides and deciduous ivy patterns the outside walls. Entering through the heavy front door we were swept away by the sheer size of the interior space and the luxuriousness of its contents. The caretaker, Francois, walked us through room after room of furniture dating from the Renaissance to Louis XIV and XV. Heavily carved yet beautifully proportioned cupboards and wardrobes hold all the daily household needs and there are velvet covered settings in two sitting rooms with high, gilded mirrors and tall French windows to let in the light. Traditional tapestries woven in Aubusson abound, and nearly every room in this eight bedroom abode boasts one. I particularly love the stone - floored rustic kitchen and its great collection of catering sized pots and pans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We wandered excitedly through the many rooms and I suggested bedrooms for each person. By the most enormous luck each one had instinctively gravitated to the room I had in mind for them, which was a great relief to me. Everyone had fallen in love instantly with the impressive house and its bountiful surroundings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The grounds have a careless charm, un manicured except for a grassy path bounded by young lavender leading to a secluded rotunda of foliage - a place for sitting under a huge, shady tree and contemplating the property. Tucked behind a grove of hedges a swimming pool gleamed pristinely in the sunshine, and proved to be a focus of much pleasure in the warm evenings, the natural gathering place for drinks and feeling the last of the sun on our faces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Soon our lovely caterer <b>Valerie Largorsse</b> arrived with a note of welcome and some tapestry frames from my wonderful, indispensable contact in Aubusson, <b>Susanne Bouret</b>, who had very generously liaised with the Aubusson weavers and arranged our two days of visits to the town. Susanne is an esteemed conservator of textiles and a wonderful translator because she knows and understands both the language and technique of weaving so well. I couldn't do this part of the tour without her depth of knowledge and her willingness to be involved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Valerie produced a marvellous meal for us, and as well as catering for every evening meal she came each day laden with bread and fresh fruit and vegetables, homemade pates, terrines and rillettes for our picnic lunches, eggs and cereal and confiture for our breakfasts. On the second day Francois arrived with an enormous box of fresh farm produce to supplement our provisions, including tomatoes with a flavour that could only be imagined. Valerie and I had discussed menus before our visit and I asked for them to be simple but characteristic of French cuisine. Night after night she delighted us with the variety and excellence of her efforts, also catering thoughtfully for three people who had food allergies. Betty sat in the kitchen with her each evening and compiled a list of her recipes to share, Valerie explaining patiently the details of ingredients and methods. We all grew very fond of her during our week together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our time here was divided between a workshop to learn and explore tapestry techniques designed to accommodate the skills of the participants, and visits to the studios of <b>Aubusson</b> weavers, the <b>Cite Internationale de la Tapisserie</b> and the <b>Atelier Pinton</b>, in nearby <b>Felletin</b>. After settling in to the lovely surroundings and waking to the fresh, country air we warped up our frames on the second day, using the large dining room as an ideal studio, scattering the enormous table with our materials. As I had students from several levels of accomplishment I tailored the workshop to their individual needs. Inspired by the wealth of tapestry that we had seen so far, the beginners were very keen to learn the basic technique and the more experienced weavers had very definite ideas about what they wanted to pursue. These included explorations of Mediaeval tapestry techniques and weaving "en plein air", picturing the surrounds of the Manoir.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">The next morning we walked through the winding streets of Angers to the <b>Chateau</b>, an enormous fortress sitting precipitously on an outcrop of rock, its vast proportions dominating the edge of the city and overlooking the river Maine. Its history dates from the Neolithic period and it has been, in turn, over the centuries, a barracks, a prison and a castle that entertained a dazzling court life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">The Apocalypse </i>tapestry<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>measuring 100 metres long by 4.5 metres high was commissioned in 1375 by Louis 1, Duke of Anjou, and was completed in 1382, a scant seven years in the production of a masterpiece. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Woven during the 100 years' war between Britain and France it depicts the hellish ravages of plague and famine in exquisite tableaux, the subject matter tamed in its representation by the order of its design and excellence of weaving.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Designed by court painter Jean Bandol (also referred to as Jean de Bruges) from existing Anglo - French manuscript cycles owned by Charles V, 71 scenes from 7 panels measuring 80 feet long by 20 feet high have survived the centuries. The tapestries, that had performed an important ceremonial role in the Royal courts between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, fell into disrepair, neglected and abandoned from the end of the eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth until discovered and restored by the Canon of Angers cathedral. In 1954 they were returned to the Chateau to be put on display. Now exhibited in a purpose built, low lit gallery it is possible for the viewer to focus entirely on the detail of its superb rendering and lose oneself in the wonderful breadth of its scale.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The suite is based on the Apocalypse according to St. John, who wrote the book of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Revelations</b></i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> whilst exiled on the Greek island of Patmos in 96 AD, suffering persecution under the Roman Empire. It pictures a "divine" vision that is also a "prophecy", a work intended to 'edify, exhort and console.' Like many tapestries of the middle ages it plays an instructive and didactic role, illustrating the required constancy of God's faithful servants in the battle between good and evil. Here Christ is depicted as the Glorious Lamb, and Satan as the Great Dragon. St. John appears in each scene playing in turn the parts of witness, spectator and participant, his face becoming the emotional register for the unfolding events.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It comprises 67 horizontal scenes, 1.8 m. in height and 2.8 in width, arranged in two rows and grouped in six large sections. Four of them begin with tall, vertical panels, 4.53 m. in width. It is known that Bandol made the cartoons for the first two sections and the start of the third. Interestingly, these initial panels have plain backgrounds, but from the third section they become ornamented with complex motifs of plants, birds, monograms and "</span>quadrilobe lozenges", perhaps testament to the increasingly demonstrable skills of the weavers.</span><br />
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The original strong background colours that alternate red and blue have faded to soft rose and teal but in 1982 the linings were removed to clean the tapestries and another "revelation" took place. It was discovered that the strong yellows had disappeared, the abundant greens had faded to soft blues and the oranges had turned pink. The tapestries were photographed and the images reversed for <i><b>Front & Back,</b></i> (Francis Muel, 1996) an excellent picture publication from which I have gleaned much of the information presented here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We found a charming creperie just outside the walls of the chateau to lunch in, appropriately named<i> Creperie du Chateau, </i>with a fixed price main course and dessert crepe served in a cosy atmosphere. The day was quite chilly so we were glad of open fireplaces and warm drinks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The hospital was founded in 1175 by the laity of Angers and later taken over by the clergy. It functioned for 800 years, looking after the needs of the poor and the sick, the great ward housing up to 360 beds. At the front of this remarkable space the original apothecary's dispensary is still on view, displaying a large array of china and porcelain from the renowned French manufactories of the 17th and 18th centuries. The hospital became the city's Antiquities museum in 1865 and remained so until 1967 when Lurcat's <b><i>Le</i></b> <i style="font-weight: bold;">Chant du Monde </i>found a home there. Acquired from Lurcat's wife after his death in 1966, their placement fulfilled his wish that it be exhibited close to <i>The</i> <i>Apocalypse </i>suite that had inspired him when he viewed it for the first time in 1937.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The <b>L'Hopital</b> is set in delightful gardens and the exhibition space opens to a cloister, complete with well. Restored in 1988, it comprises a collection of buildings that also includes a sick ward, a chapel, storerooms and cellars. In the nave, the pointed Gothic arches soar upwards supported by delicate columns, providing the perfect volume for Lurcat's magnificent <b><i>Song of the World</i></b> (1956 - 1966) series of tapestries inspired by <i>The Apocalypse</i>. To see these suites in such close proximity (both physically and intellectually) to each other is a rare privilege. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The French workshop practice of Jean Lurcat saw the restoration of the woven mark in its own right, reversing the trend of copying paintings in wool that had started with the Raphael cartoons in 1510. Drawing on Mediaeval precedents, his designs were tailored to acknowledge the skills and techniques of the weaver. A designer and painter, he became interested in tapestry in the late 1950s and re-invigorated the weaving community at <b>Aubusson</b> in central France by supplying designs to the individual ateliers. He created his mural form by exploiting the texture of the yarn and limiting the colour palette to forty five tones on a flat field, devoid of perspective. Interestingly, even in his recognition of the weaver’s art and his identification of the woven form as separate from a painted work, Lurcat issued detailed instructions to his weavers, especially in terms of dictating colour choices. He produced scaled up cartoons in gouache that were carefully numbered to indicate well defined colour areas. </span><br />
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The ten tapestries of <i>The Song of the World </i>are incredibly vigorous, colourful renditions of a modern apocalyptic time, complete with atom bomb and its social fallout. The work is described by the museum as - "a manifesto of a committed artist, this set of ten tapestries is an epic vision, poetic, symbolic and humanist of the 20th century." Two distinct themes emerge - threat, destruction and chaos in the first four tapestries named <i>The Great Threat, The Man of Hiroshima, The Mass Grave </i>and<i> The End of Everything. </i>Then renewal, hope and joy in the next six entitled <i>Man in Glory at Peace, Water and Fire, Champagne, The Conquest of Space, Poetry </i>and<i> Ornamentos Sagrados. </i>Lurcat died while the final tapestry was being woven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The tapestry Biennales in Lausanne initiated by Lurcat in 1962 unleashed the work of many International individual tapestry and textile artists over the next few decades and gave rise to the contemporary movement. Honouring his contribution the <b>Musee Jean Lurcat</b> was set up in the grounds of the L'Hopital, in a building that was a former orphanage, to show contemporary textile art.</span><br />
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On this visit the special exhibition was entitled <i style="font-weight: bold;">Sacre Blanc</i>, a tribute to <b>Thomas Gleb</b>, a painter, originally from Poland whose name became synonymous with the New Tapestry movement. He pioneered huge, ropy "white on white"<b> </b>wallhangings in the 60s and 70s, all too familiar manifestations of crude, geometric, textured wall pieces that fashionably swept the textile art world at the time. However, in this exhibition, fifty invited contemporary textile artists had made work in response to the theme of the "colour white and the sacred" through the use of embroidery, ceramics, lace, drawing, photography, painting and weaving in a varied and subtle exploration of the theme that was an extension rather than a commemoration of Gleb's work. </span>Tapestry Tourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701653035274472760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040078799910653650.post-80674363310562745072013-02-01T18:21:00.002-08:002013-02-01T18:28:20.500-08:00Angers - Cathedrals and Courtship<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">A short train trip from the Gare Montparnasse brought us to Angers, the delightful Mediaeval town in the Loire valley. Its castle houses <b><i>The Apocalypse</i></b>, one of the wonders of surviving 14th century craftsmanship - the enormous, poetic tapestry illustrating the book of Revelations in seventy panels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">As we came out of the station in search of taxis several young people in very fancy dress greeted us noisily - there was a lot of whooping and cheering and the distinct evidence of flour bomb debris all over the pavement. We made a hasty escape, but the University "rag" would catch up with us later in the day, fortunately in a very benign way!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">After settling into the <b>Hotel du Mail</b>, a charming country hotel built in the style of a manor that occupies two sides of a cobbled courtyard, we walked across the lovely old town to the <b>Cathedrale St. Maurice</b> that contains eleven Gothic tapestries, an imposing Romanesque/Gothic landmark at its centre. The west portal is crowned by two tall towers and a smaller central one that sits on a figured base. Inside, t</span>he spare, grey stone walls sweep upwards in true pointed arch manifestations of the Gothic style, yet the high altar shines in showy excess. Designed in the Baroque style in 1758, six marble columns support an intricately gilded canopy.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The tapestries form one of the most famous and precious collections in Europe, and were woven between 1376-81 for the cathedral. However, they are not all on regular view. The illustrations were drawn by <b>Jean Bondol</b>, based on an illuminated manuscript, and the weaving was overseen by <b>Nicolas Bataille</b> whose workshop also produced the acclaimed <i>Apocalypse</i>. More overwhelming was the display of stained glass windows crafted between the 12th and 16th C. with some 20th C. replacements made after the second world war. </span>There is a distinctly reverential atmosphere within the vast space, and the amalgam of styles takes nothing away from the quiet serenity within.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The front of the cathedral faces a sweep of shallow cobbled steps that descend to a pretty fountain in an open square. We sat along the rim of water in gentle Autumn afternoon sunlight, enjoying a view of a shaded park and listening to the high hilarity of a few dozen young people cavorting around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With absolutely no warning, ten handsome young men descended on our sixty something group, kneeling in front of each of us and singing, in unison, a pledge of undying love with great gusto and feigned emotion. At the finish they demanded our telephone numbers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our last day in Paris included a visit to the Musee des Arts Decoratifs that shows the very best of the decorative arts, an overwhelming display of skilled craftsmanship from the very old to the very new. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A short stroll from Rue Moliere down the Avenue de L'Opera to the Rue de Rivoli, we were there in no time at all and filled in a happy half hour exploring the glamorous shops in the</span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Carrousel du Louvre,</i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> an underground arcade that leads directly to the I. M. Pei glass pyramid that forms the contemporary entrance to the Musee du Louvre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Musee des Arts Decoratifs is housed in part of the original palace that flanks the Rue de Rivoli and opens out onto the spacious Tuileries gardens. It is a treasure trove of decorative art encased in 18th century elegance. We made a delightful, leisurely stroll through time in this palace of riches, viewing relief sculpture, paintings, ceramics, wood, ivory and enamel work, glass, furniture and textiles that span centuries of civilisation from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the innovations of style and techniques of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, and finally to the funky modern furnishings of the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties of the twentieth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For tapestry lovers the Mediaeval rooms are particularly rewarding, resplendent with "courting couples" tapestries and the recreation of a Mediaeval bedroom with woven hangings and bedcovers. Dating from the end of the 15th C. most of the furnishings were acquired from the Chateau of Villeneuve - Lembron in the Auvergne. The interior contains a canopy bed, bench, chest and dresser placed contextually around a fireplace with carved wooden mantel. Five pieces of narrative tapestry adorn the walls, woven in Paris in 1420 and illustrating courting themes from <i>The Romance of the Rose. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Other mediaeval tapestries depict pastoral scenes including wood chopping and grape gathering. <i>Les Vendanges (Gathering the grapes) </i>was woven at the beginning of the 16th C. in Tournai. In a small room that displays panels of inlaid wood and small mediaeval portraits hangs a brilliantly detailed tapestry entitled <i>Le Festin,</i> depicting a feast, possibly in celebration of the return of the Prodigal son. Woven in silk and wool, it dates from 1510 - 1515. Two large "grotesque" tapestries occupy the walls of the salon dedicated to the late Italian Renaissance. They serve a purely decorative function as the rich narratives of the previous works give way to a more ornamental style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">More treats in store include the wealth of <b>Art Nouveau</b> and <b>Art Deco</b> exhibits, including a Caldor rug woven in Aubusson, and a complete recreation of Jeanne Lanvin's Paris apartment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 1924, The fashion designer <b>Jeanne Lanvin</b> commissioned the decorator, Armand Albert Rateau to redecorate her apartment at 16, rue Barbet de Jouy. His designs were drawn from the eclectic influences of antiquity, the East, and floral motifs, and incorporated the use of rare materials such as marble and bronze as well as beautiful textiles. The bedroom and sitting room are draped with silk in the trademark "Lanvin blue", exquisitely machine embroidered in the designer's workshop in a delicate drop of white palms, roses and marguerites. When the apartment building was demolished in 1965 the beautiful four room suite was relocated to the Musee and presented in an authentic a style as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of my favourite rooms in the Musee sports a collection of 1960s chairs, mostly made from moulded plastic, the new material that was all the rage at that time. Accompanying the ultra modern, shaped chaises is a collage of film clips from the 60s and 70s in which each of the chairs that you are encouraged to sit in and watch, "stars" in movies from the era. It is frankly hilarious and totally fascinating, ranging from James Bond to Woody Allen. At the end the credits roll, paying homage to the designers and manufacturers of each "starring" chair!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> After lunch at a nearby restaurant we enjoyed the gardens surrounded by the wonderful <b>Maillol</b> nudes that sprout abundantly through the manicured foliage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At the <b>Musee de la</b> <b>Mode et du Textile</b> that adjoins the Musee des Arts Decoratifs there was a very comprehensive tribute exhibition to the designer <b>Louis Vuitton</b> that traced his rise from a designer of luggage and handbags to fashion, and his influence on the contemporary designer <b>Marc Jacobs</b>. It was like entering a shimmering grotto that seemed to incorporate mirrors on every surface and throbbed to a loud disco vibe. Quite disconcerting for the viewer and obviously designed as an "experience" for the younger generation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Before we left Paris we had a stunning meal at <i>Gallopin</i> in lieu of our inability to book at the aforementioned <i>Le Grand Colbert.</i> Served with great style and elegance in a chandeliered brasserie that gleamed with lights, mirrors and old fashioned charm, we were well satisfied with a menu that comprised all that traditional French cuisine could offer, a very satisfying finish to our Parisian stay. </span><br />
<br />Tapestry Tourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701653035274472760noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040078799910653650.post-67168933978614363822012-12-27T22:37:00.000-08:002012-12-27T22:37:07.524-08:00A rainy afternoon at the Gobelins<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of my challenges when setting up the itinerary was to try to get an English language tour of the Gobelins Tapestry Workshop. After months of emailing to all web listed email addresses, responses were not forthcoming. So with a resigned air I herded my group by Metro to the very grand entrance, knowing that a long tour in French would probably be a bit wearisome for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Gobelins Tapestry Workshop was set up under royal patronage in 1662, and is the longest running workshop in the world. The Manufacture des Gobelins was founded as a dye works in the mid-15th century by Jean Gobelin. In 1662, Louis XIV purchased the manufactory and there minister Colbert united all the artisans, creating a royal tapestry and furniture works. Charles Le Brun was director and chief designer from 1663 to 1690. The Gobelins was temporarily closed from 1694 to 1697, after which the works specialised in tapestry. I had first visited there in 1979, a few short years after the establishment of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop (now ATW) in 1976 where I was a production weaver. I was amazed to see the working conditions of the Gobelins weavers, still so governed by the past with apprenticeships that lasted seven years, bondage to the workshop with rules prohibiting their own self expression and studios that were dark and depressing.</span><br />
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I voiced my disappointment over not being able to arrange an English language tour to the attentive young man at the desk, and he, in turn, relayed my request to the smart young woman, <b>Diane Marnier</b>, who was assigned to be our guide. He also furnished me with the details of the person to contact about setting up the tour for next year. Diane generously agreed to explain parts in English for us. The tour is very regimented with an embargo on taking photographs in the studios.</span><br />
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Because of the rain, we started in the chapel that I had not seen before. Plain white walls were draped with "contemporary" tapestries dating from the 1950s and 60s. It is interesting how in France these designs are repeatedly woven over the decades even though they look visually dated. Crossing the cobbled courtyard and the small street that used to be a river on which the initial dye works were established, we entered the newer area.</span><br />
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A large, new, multi storey building sits behind a grassed area and is surrounded by a pleasant park full of mature conifers. The visit starts on the top level, outside a studio area known as the "Savonnerie", named after an original soap manufactory. Outside, in the foyer, was an example of a rug with tufted insignia woven in shades of deep royal blue. It was explained to us that Government patronage has taken over where Royal patronage left off, and the carpet had been woven for the President to stand on whilst he witnessed a Bastille day parade from an elevated dais. Inside, the studio is flooded with light and pile rugs of enormous size are being made in high warp technique. We could clearly see the weft being woven in and areas being shaved to the right depth with large shears balanced on a ruler. Diane demonstrated the complicated twining of the weft using her fingers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On a lower level the tapestry studio is a bit less rewarding as it is furnished with low warp looms that slope away from the viewer, and all that is really visible is the cartoon below the warps and the design that hangs above. Woven painfully slowly from the back of the work it appears a truly backbreaking exercise as the weavers pause constantly to shove a mirror between the warps to see what their weaving looks like from the right side. They boast that their production rate per weaver is one square metre a year, a rate that would have a production weaver anywhere else out of work! Usually the weavers don't engage with the public, but this time we met and spoke to a woman who had been working there for over thirty years. She was fascinated by the information that we weave from the front, a fact that always seems incomprehensible to French weavers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Diane proved to be a godsend, liberally translating her spiel into English and graciously answering all our questions. I will definitely seek her out next year. We left feeling happy and well informed due to her efforts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We walked along the Rue Richelieu to the closest one, the <b>Galerie Vivienne</b>, which I think happens to be the grandest and most interesting of them. Built in 1823, the floors are magnificently mosaiced in Italian tiles, its wide entrance opens onto a generous rotunda and the arcade itself glows warmly stretching into the distance, lit by glass skylights. There are very upmarket fashion shops with the latest knitted fabrics and colour combinations moulded into up-to-the-minute designs. A feeling of sumptuous elegance surrounds the fashion boutiques like <b>Wolff and Descourtis</b> and <b>Jean Paul</b> <b>Gaultier</b>. Curiosities like a maker of silk flowers and well stocked bookshops are thrown into the mix. We lingered in a beautiful toyshop, <b>Si tu veux</b>, which had lovely handmade wooden toys, cloth dolls and everything else to captivate any child. A gallery showed a strangely anthropomorphic feathered being in its window display.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The <b>Galerie Colbert,</b> around the corner from Vivienne and built in 1826, is extremely grand architecturally with very high walls and a walk that leads to a wide, elegant rotunda. It is not a shopping arcade but houses part of The National Library in its upper reaches. Our bags were searched before we were allowed to enter and our exploration of it led to one of the most delightful coincidences of the tour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On our arrival in Paris, Betty, one of the participants, asked me if I knew where the restaurant was located that was used in the film S<i>omething's Got to Give </i>starring<i> </i>Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson. "That's a big ask" I responded, "Paris is a very big place!" Well, to my greatest astonishment, as we walked down </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the street outside the arcade we came face to face with a huge movie poster bearing the images of the actors and the proud announcement that it was, indeed, the Belle Epoque restaurant, </span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Le Grand Colbert</b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, that had hosted the filming of this illustrious company!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We subsequently tried to book twice to have a meal, but of course it was booked out. The maitre d', Francois, was very charming and told us about <b>Le Petit Colbert</b> which is at a little remove at 8, Rue Monsigny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A further walk in the drizzle down Rue St. Augustin and Rue Vivienne took us to a string of arcades, from <b>Passage des Panoramas</b>, full of philately and restaurants, to <b>Passage</b> <b>Jouffroy. </b>Here there are tearooms and confiseries filled with delicately crafted and packaged cakes, a shop specialising in comic books - <b>Le Petit Roi</b> - and interior design boutiques that lean towards the baroque and the bizarre. The arcade culminates in <b>The Hotel Chopin</b> built in 1846 and still operating, a glimpse of an elegant past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Ile de la Cite became the very heart of French power from its original occupation by Gallic tribes in the 1st century to the establishment of the palace of the first king of France, Clovis, in the 6th century. </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sainte Chapelle was built between 1242 and 1248 as a complex of two chapels, one above the other, by Louis IX to act as a reliquary for objects from the Passion of Christ, most notably the Crown of Thorns that was acquired by the king in 1239 from the Emperor of Constantinople. The relics were displayed in the upper chapel to which only the king and his close friends and family had access, and the lower chapel was used as a place of worship by the palace staff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The design is in the shape of a very simple basilica - a long, narrow rectangle with a semi circular apse at one end. Entering the lower space you are absorbed by the warm glow of its colour - reds, blues and golds predominate - and the richness of its decoration. A 13th century fresco of the Annunciation graces one wall and the twelve apostles are depicted in medallion portraits. The struts of the vault gleam gold against the azure "sky", ornamented with "stars" of fleur de lys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But it is the upper chapel, reached by a narrow turret of winding steps, that takes your breath away in a heart stopping display of sixteen shimmering windows of sky scraping glass as you emerge into a blaze of light and colour! Depicting the chapters of the Bible from Genesis to Christ's resurrection in 1, 113 scenes the effect is mesmerising, a story best told in pictures.</span><br />
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Tapestry Tourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701653035274472760noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040078799910653650.post-47147881496928096102012-10-31T04:33:00.001-07:002012-10-31T04:41:51.896-07:00 Musee du Moyen Age<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Between two Unicorns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From Stirling to Paris we were literally between two Unicorn suites, the re woven <i><b>Hunt</b></i> pageant and the sublimely beautiful <b><i>Lady.</i></b></span><br />
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On a beautiful morning we caught the train to Chatelet and then walked across the wide Pont au Change to our destination, the <i style="font-weight: bold;">Musee du Moyen Age </i>on the Boulevard St. Michel. Why is it that the sky seems so much higher in Paris? And why do you always see that perfect, spirit lifting bank of puff ball clouds scattered across the blue as you cross the Seine to the Left Bank?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Musee is structurally the most fascinating accretion of history, from the original Gallo Roman baths dating from 200 AD to the 15th century Hotel de Cluny, its flamboyant Gothic features preserved and restored in the 19th century. It was home to Alexandre du Sommerand from 1833 to 1842, and here he assembled a Mediaeval collection that was purchased upon his death by the State along with the building itself. The treasures that we see today sprang from this embryo, and have been added to over the years through donations and legacies as well as important acquisitions such as the <b><i>La Dame a la Licorne</i></b> tapestries in 1882.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Evoking the five senses,</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, Touch</i></b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and a sixth entitled</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>A mon Seul Desir</i></b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, bearing the Coat of Arms of Jean le Viste, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the <b><i>L</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>a Dame </i></b></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>a </i></b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">l</span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>a Licorne</i></b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> suite</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> originally graced the walls of the castle at Boussac. It </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was discovered there in a deteriorated state by</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Prosper Merimee</b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Georges Sand</b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in the 1840s, and their efforts played a part in the recovery and subsequent recognition and repatriation of the tapestries as major works of art. Believed to be woven as a wedding gift for the family of Jean le Viste in the 1500s, we are still charmed by the enchanting animals and flowers, the spaciousness and balance of the composition, and the supreme labour manifest in this extraordinary expression of love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Entering the low light of the oval room that houses the famous suite is magical, the magnificence of their glowing presence permeating all. We studied at length the details of superbly refined and exquisite weaving, surely the high point of expression in this medium. Within the sensuality of the flowering garden and the "millefleurs" background the five senses are represented as -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Sight</i></b> - the lady gazes at the unicorn and holds a mirror in which he observes his own reflection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>A Mon Seul Desir</i></b> - the lady is either taking or replacing a necklace from a box of jewels. The "sixth sense" illustrated the tapestry could be interpreted as intelligence, wisdom or the "spiritual heart" that governs the five others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the interesting things we discovered on this visit concerned the state of the re woven borders added as restoration in the late 19th century. I had always wondered why these ostensibly newer additions were more faded than the originals. And the answer? The yarn was dyed with chemical dyes as opposed to the natural ones used in the 15th century that have retained their vibrant colour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">After taking our fill of these wonderful works we moved slowly on through the wealth of small rooms richly decorated with contemporaneous suites of tapestries including <i>The story of St. Stephen, The story of St. Peter, The Offering of the Heart </i>and<i> Aristocratic Life. </i>As well as the tapestries the Musee houses an abundance of Mediaeval craftsmanship - enamel and metalwork, ivories, stained glass, embroidery and sculpture dating from the fifth century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We lunched in a brasserie across the road and then made our way back to view the garden, bounded by the boulevards St. Germain and St.Michel. Opened in 2000, the garden is designed to resonate with the Musee collection and provide respite from the busy contemporary world that surrounds it. Drawing inspiration from the treasures within, it includes medicinal plants, a celestial garden where flowers such as lilies and irises symbolise the Virgin Mary, and a garden of love reflecting courtly pastimes. A "millefleurs" flowerbed directly references the wonderfully complex floral background motifs of the tapestries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The <b>Hotel Moliere</b> was a delight, well situated in the Rue Moliere which is just off the Avenue de L'Opera and very close to to the Rue de Rivoli and the Louvre complex. Charming old style rooms decorated in chintzes and toiles awaited us and it was easy to shake off the wearying aspects of travel and freshen up for an evening walk around the <b>Palais Royal</b>. Its cool arcades were welcome respite from the heat of the day and its boutiques offered up a range of fashionable distractions as we ambled around the quadrangle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The reason for the visit was to see the re woven <i><b>Hunt of the Uni</b></i><i><b>corn</b> </i>tapestries, a project that has been undertaken by the <b>West Dean</b> tapestry studio over a period of twelve years. Originally woven in Brussels between 1495 and 1505, this famed suite of six tapestries hangs in the Cloisters in New York, part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the theme of this allegorical hunt, the fabled Unicorn is associated with purity and inaccessible love, and the hunt is a mission to capture the animal for its healing powers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Funded by Historic Scotland and the Quinque Foundation of the United States, the new tapestries have been woven on a horizontal or low warp loom at West Dean and also on a vertical, high warp loom at a purpose built studio at Stirling. They are one tenth smaller and warped at ten ends to the inch as opposed to the 18 -20 ends of the originals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Past and present collide in this endeavour as contemporary artist weavers inhabit the skin of the mediaeval artisan and create a repetition of their thoughts and movements in a fascinating exercise. Enormous research has gone into the making, from careful examination of the 15thC. Hunts, to the establishment of the colour palette, the dyeing of the range of yarn and the sampling of the elements that make up these incredibly complex panoramas. Conforming to ancient techniques, tonal gradations are achieved through areas of “hatching” in singular colours rather than mixing strands of wool together. There are enchanting vignettes of botanically accurate bunches of “millefleurs”, dainty animals, prancing hunters clothed in a variety of fabrics, jewelled ladies, sleek baying hounds, animated mediaeval faces and the calm purity of the hunted mythical Unicorn in their midst.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Five of the tapestries are complete, and the last one will be ready in next year. Senior weaver <b>Katherine</b> <b>Swailes</b> has imaginatively re - created the final and sixth tapestry in the suite as in actuality it only exists in two incoherent strips of weaving. The missing areas of the tapestry have been re - imagined through referencing other work of the period, including the contemporaneous <b><i>La Dame a la Licorn</i>e</b> from the Musee du Moyen Age in Paris.</span><br />
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Our first stop was the studio where the final tapestry sits dormant, as the weavers have been co opted into an urgent project at the West Dean studio in Sussex. A sprightly guide gave us a very full explanation of the weaving technique and the history of the project that somewhat made up for the lack of actual demonstration. Seeing the quality of this work up close is a revelation and the amount of skill employed to render the detail is quite awe inspiring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Built by Scotland's James V for his French bride Marie de Guise, the palace has recently undergone a 12 million dollar refurbishment that sets it authentically in the mid sixteenth century. Completed originally in 1545, at the height of the Renaissance, its flamboyant decorative past has been painstakingly captured in carved and brightly stencilled panels and gilded columns. This is where </span><br />
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After lunch we entered the newly renovated Queen's apartments in the Palace to view the completed Hunt tapestries that grace the freshly painted rooms. Although displayed in an authentic manner, they are hung up so high that it is impossible to appreciate the amount of work that has gone into the weaving. It is also very disappointing that an embroidered velvet throne canopy has been installed in a way that blocks out considerable sections of two tapestries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And what of the birthday? I had a very special day because my dear friend <b>Carol Dunbar,</b> an artist weaver who has lived in Orkney for twenty five years, came down to Edinburgh to spend the day with me. We met at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1980 and have maintained our friendship through all the ups and downs of the intervening years, bridging continents and hemispheres. It was so exciting to meet her at the station and talk non stop all the way to Stirling and back, and continue the conversation later over cups of tea and dinner. Carol's work has recently been featured in <b><i>Tapestry - a Woven Narrative, </i></b>a comprehensive survey of tapestry from the past to the present day, compiled by Fiona Mathison, Caron Penney and Timothy Wilcox.</span></div>
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<br />Tapestry Tourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701653035274472760noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040078799910653650.post-78150444470313133942012-10-01T01:35:00.000-07:002012-10-01T01:36:02.676-07:00Dovecot's century<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On Friday morning we walked the charming cobbles of the Grassmarket and up through the winding steps to North Bridge and then to Infirmary Street to the historic <b>Dovecot Studios</b>, now successfully housed in a complex that used to be the Edinburgh Baths. This beautiful new incarnation of the studio was financed by a private benefactor, Alastair Salveson. With a huge timbered floor space and generously proportioned mezzanine area that surrounds it, it has found a home that compares very well with the gracious interior of our own Australian Tapestry Workshop. Clever management of the surrounding spaces that include exhibition areas, a coffee shop and even apartments mean that income from the whole building subsidises the survival of the tapestry studio.</span><br />
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The main attraction at the moment is the 100th anniversary exhibition, <i style="font-weight: bold;">Weaving the Century</i>, which is presented in three large downstairs spaces and also along the upstairs mezzanine that runs above the studio space. I was eager to see how many of the older tapestries would be there as I had experienced first hand knowledge of many of the works from the previous large retrospective in 1980, <i style="font-weight: bold;">Master Weavers. </i>At that time I was living in Edinburgh and studying at the Edinburgh College of Art, and my ex - husband photographed the catalogue, an exercise that took us to stately homes and castles including Mt. Stuart on the Isle of Bute, the ancestral home of the Marquess, the Dovecot's first patron, to photograph the magnificent <i>Lord of the Hunt </i>tapestry. An enormous work measuring over 32 feet, it was commenced in 1912 and finished after the first world war in 1924, the two original weavers having lost their lives during the war. Sadly this tapestry was not part of the current exhibition.</span><br />
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We had a very well informed guide, Francesca, who is doing a PhD on the history of the studios. Curated by art historian, Dr Elizabeth Cumming, there are over sixty tapestries in the show. The oldest work is the very impressive <i>The Admirable Crichton </i>that dates from 1930 and was woven over a period of three years. An expansive tableau, it looks like a still from a film and honours James Crichton, a forebear of the Bute family. Its rich design demonstrates the enormous skills of the weavers and the quality of their production. A large, framed sampler also emphasises the rigorous training of apprentices at this time.</span><br />
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Photography was not permitted in the exhibition area, but it was exciting to see the artistic evolution of the Studio as it worked through the design fashions of the 1940s, to the 1950s under the aesthetic guidance of <b>Sax Shaw,</b> and towards what must be seen as its hey day under the directorship of <b>Archie Brennan</b> from the early 1960s. Starting as an apprentice and soon becoming a distinguished artist and designer in his own right he brought a new vitality to the process through his informed insight into the medium and his intelligent collaboration with leading artists of the time including <b>Eduardo Paolozzi, Harold Cohen,</b> <b>David Hockney</b> and <b>Louise Nevelson</b>. These works still have the ability to take your breath away, and as a former production weaver I once again had the opportunity to appreciate how thoroughly the designs had been assessed and explored and how far away they are from mere reproductions of the artists' work.</span><br />
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The newest tapestries are hung out of the main exhibition rooms, around the wide mezzanine that surrounds the actual workspace. Colourful, experimental, textural, and sometimes three dimensional, they display a variety of approach and a desire to engage with contemporary art in all its eclectic forms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">After seeing the exhibition we went down onto the studio floor and weaver,<b> Jon Cleaver</b>, demonstrated the basic technique of tapestry weaving to the group. This was particularly useful to four of my participants who had not woven before. We were then able to view work in progress and rugs that were being tufted with a gun at the rear of the studio. There is a large tapestry entitled <i>Large Tree Group</i> on the loom designed by <b>Victoria</b> <b>Crowe</b> as a mark of the centenary of tapestry at Dovecot. The yarn has been sourced from fleece all around the UK to form a palette of natural colour in undyed wool. A snowy scene is emerging as a bleak figure trudges towards a stand of bare trees.</span></div>
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Tapestry Tourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701653035274472760noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040078799910653650.post-42928059644155240322012-09-12T22:52:00.001-07:002012-09-12T22:52:59.025-07:00Visits to Edinburgh Tapestry Artists<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On Thursday morning we made our way to King's Cross station to catch the 10 o'clock train to Edinburgh. The service in first class was smooth and pleasurable and we were plied with food and drink for the four hours of the journey. After checking into the very comfortable surroundings of the Apex City hotel in the Grassmarket which boasted views of the Castle atop its steep rock, we piled into taxis to visit <b>Linda Green</b> at her home and studio. The ride took us picturesquely around the huge mound of Holyrood Park, its vast green slopes both a rugged and gentle backdrop to the eastern side of the town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have long been fascinated by Linda's three dimensional woven constructions and her ability to "draw"with myriad slender threads that weave around themselves into delicate grids. Now she is surprising us with a new body of work in which she explores the potential of phragmites, a reed native to the waters of the Neil Garden at Duddingston Loch, where she has been resident for the past few months. Over a season she has immersed herself in nature and in particular the properties of the reed, drying, splitting and weaving them to discover their potential. It has led her to experimenting with weaves recorded by Theo Moorman in her quest to transform plant material into woven cloth. Most exciting are her prints of the reeds as viewed through a microscope, which, in turn, have resulted in a series of sensitive drawings. Her investigation has culminated in an exhibition at the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens this summer aptly entitled <i><b>From Straw to Gold</b>.</i></span><br />
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Linda is a keen gardener herself, and her upstairs studio overlooks the results of her labours, a profusion of colour and leaf that spills out of ordered beds that have been carefully tended over the years. We were fortunate to enjoy her warm hospitality and share a little of the magic she creates in her thoughtful practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On Friday afternoon we visited the <b>WASPS</b> studios which are housed in an old bakery building converted into a gallery and artists' studios that have subsidised rent, allowing the residents a relatively inexpensive area in which to produce their work. I had not met <b>Jo Barker</b> before although I have followed her work for some time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Also a graduate from the Edinburgh College of Art, her distinctive imagery combines a tracery of swirled lines and dots that oscillate over dense ovals and circles which combine to form colour saturated tapestries. To arrive at these unique designs she uses techniques of drawing, painting, collage and digital manipulation. She showed us many small sketchbooks which contained repeated explorations of colour and form. Because the visual impact of the work relies heavily on the translation of colour, her yarns have to be chosen in a very particular manner for their density and light absorption qualities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jo also spoke of an inspirational recent trip to Egypt where she was able to view the Wissa Wassef studios and experience the light and colour of another, very different country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Upstairs we were welcomed into <b>Fiona Hutchison's</b> studio, which is draped with her exploratory ventures into capturing the essence of moving water. She is a sailor and is inspired primarily by the sea, swathes of blue "stuff" abounds and she herself, dressed in blue, animatedly communicates this passion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">She explores the surface of the sea and its light reflecting qualities through the use of textured materials such as sisal and tracing paper which has been painted, coiled and threaded. A prolific exhibitor and inspired teacher she is generous in talking about the methods of her process and held us spellbound with her explanation of how she experiments to create her three dimensional pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Although we were unable to meet her we were also able to view <b>Sara Brennan’s</b> work at WASPS. Her tapestries appear as muted horizons - like paint dragged in one colour over the surface of another. Woven in monochromatic scale, her marks explore subtle nuances made deliberate by the carefully constructed weaving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our last visit was to <b>Joanne Soroka</b> who has recently published an excellent book on tapestry entitled <i style="font-weight: bold;">Tapestry Weaving - design and technique.</i> She had displayed a couple of large tapestries for us to view in which she explores her mixed ancestry through motifs as diverse as scratched rock and rusted metal. She also showed us a new series of small experimental works that employ texture and gilt coloured yarn.</span><br />
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Tapestry Tourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701653035274472760noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040078799910653650.post-23051965438943361742012-09-10T08:56:00.000-07:002012-09-10T09:02:27.412-07:00A day at Court<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On another breathtaking London day we made our way to <b>Hampton Court Palace</b> to see the wealth of tapestries housed there. I had tried to organise a viewing of the tapestry conservation studio but that was not possible due to their heavy work load. Instead we had a charming guide, Siobhan Clark, who took us around the palace to see the the tapestries in the context of the building and its history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The most famous suite, <i><b>The Story of Abraham</b></i>, was commissioned by Henry VIII and ten tapestries was completed in Brussels around 1543 in the workshop of Willem Pannemaker after designs by Pieter van Elst. They depict scenes from the life of the prophet Abraham drawn from Genesis, chapters 12 - 24.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is believed that Henry may have used the story of Abraham's Covenant with God as a way of legitimising his own rule following his break with the Roman Catholic church in 1530 to reinforce his own direct God given right to establish the Church of England. In addition, the symbolic passing of Abraham's rights to his son Isaac became a metaphor for succession of the Tudor dynasty from Henry to his son Edward. His collection of over 2,000 tapestries were used as a great display of wealth and power and sent a strong political message to foreign visitors to the Court. A hundred years after Henry's death the Abraham suite alone was valued at over 8,000 pounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Later they were used by generations of kings as a backdrop to their coronations at Westminster Abbey and were often paraded through the streets in processions. The richness of their design and use of silk and gilt metal- wrapped thread made them appropriately splendid for these occasions. When Queen Victoria opened Hampton Court Palace to the public they found their permanent display in the Great Hall and recent conservation has restored their full glory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The vast palace was originally built in the Tudor style and developed by Cardinal Wolsey from 1514, then added to in the Baroque style by Christopher Wren who transformed the east and south facades in the late 1600s for William 111 and Mary 11. It has quite a schizophrenic appearance, the grand style of Wren pasted on top of the more utilitarian red brick foundations of its original form. Every space is, nevertheless, imposing in dimension and grandeur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A sun drenched stroll through the extensive gardens was the last pleasure that awaited us. We made our way through a succession of sculptured, contained spaces - the Knot Garden, the Privy Garden and the Pond Garden towards the Great Vine, a hefty thatch of leaf and fruit that was planted by Capability Brown in 1768. It was fairly dripping with plump, purple grapes that are sold in the various shops on site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And somewhere in the vicinity of his Great Fountain Garden we caught up with the great man himself, wide of girth and keen of eye with much to say to his attentive subjects!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Tapestry Tourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701653035274472760noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040078799910653650.post-48424292028096732902012-09-07T14:55:00.000-07:002012-09-07T14:59:48.734-07:00Visiting Anna and William<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tuesday was a big day on the trains, to make visits to two artists who both graduated from the <b>Tapestry Department</b> of the <b>Edinburgh College of Art, </b>a generation apart. Their current practice reflects the diverse nature of that education, where exploration was valued and encouraged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">First we travelled north to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire to visit <b>Anna Ray</b>, a lovely young woman whose very unusual work has impressed me immensely over the last few years. Her sculptural pieces comprise tubular stuffed structures made of cloth that draw on the viscera of the body as their source of inspiration, their writhing forms appearing organic and alive. She builds her work piece by piece until they reach a satisfactory size. Irresistibly tactile, her work entitled <i><b>Knot</b> </i>draws excited physical response wherever it is exhibited, even in the chaste surroundings of a chapel in Italy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Extremely articulate and organised, she speaks intelligently about the emotional journey of her art with great intensity. As a counterpoint to her bold fabric pieces she surprised us with a series of delicate embroideries entitled <i><b>In the Garden</b> </i>drawn from a residency at the Winterbourne Botanic Garden in Birmingham in 2004. Their fine silken stitches emulate the subtlest of drawn and painted marks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We then walked across some acres of sun drenched parkland to the station, stopping for lunch at an open air cafe. The journey back to Kew Gardens was quite arduous with a few changes along various tube lines, but we eventually emerged at the pretty station entrance and made our way along a flower filled street to <b>William Jefferies' </b>studio, a shared space in a multi level old school building.</span><br />
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William is a tapestry artist who was setting standards in his creative use of the medium thirty years ago and is still pushing the boundaries with his beautiful shaped and textured pieces today, employing a rich combination of form and shape to evoke illusion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He had assembled a huge array of samples for us to see his working process. His tapestries go against every conventional idea of what tapestry is, or should be. Woven on an upright frame, they comprise heavily textured, irregularly shaped (sometimes undulating) constructions that contrast bright colours of fine wool and lustrous cotton against the earthy textures and neutral tones of rope and sisal. They are totally unique in their conception and construction, and William, a charming and generous host, talked to us at length about his work that is also inspired by collaged collections of small objects. </span><br />
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<br />Tapestry Tourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701653035274472760noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5040078799910653650.post-62085652732359453522012-09-05T10:20:00.001-07:002012-09-05T10:20:44.964-07:00A sunny day at the V&A<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We started our visit at the <b>Mediaeval and Renaissance</b> galleries, which display textiles, metalwork, sculpture, enamel, satined glass and ceramics in the context of their time, and trace the evolution of these arts and crafts until the 1400s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There are exceptional examples of <b>Coptic </b>tapestry, two burial tunics that illustrate both the applied and integral forms of woven decoration in tapestry technique, portrait panels of Adonis and Aphrodite that are superb in their characterisation with faces you feel could be recognised on the street today, and exquisitely woven medallions full of detailed action that make contemporary efforts pale by comparison</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Large cases display examples of English embroidery, a wonderful stitched quilt in "trapunto" technique from the 1300s that pictures a narrative of battle, and the famous S<i>yon cope</i>, magnificently detailed in its execution, combining satin stitch with a border of the minutest petit point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Other tapestries of interest are a naive German panel that dates from 1490 and believed to be woven by nuns, telling the story of a woman's spiritual journey from fashionable lady to novice nun, and the beautiful <i>Scenes from the Passion of Christ </i>woven in France between 1400 and 1425. It combines three scenes - the deposition, the burial and the resurrection - into a continuous work. The rendering of the faces, figures, and the transparency of cloth is amazingly sophisticated and exquisite in every detail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The gallery culminates in the magnificent <i><b>Boar and Bear Hunt</b> </i>from the <i><b>Chatsworth Hunts</b>,</i> which occupies the entire back wall of the gallery and is splendid in its execution and detail. An upstairs gallery houses the other three pieces in the suite - <i><b>Falconry, Swan and Otter Hunt</b> </i>and <i><b>Deer Hunt</b>, </i>the whole measuring 133 feet in length. <i> </i>Believed to be woven in Arras or Tournai between 1430 and 1450, the designs were inspired by the manuscript attributed to Gaston de Foix (1331 - 1391). For many years the tapestries were housed in Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, home of the Duke of Devonshire, and were thought to have travelled to England with Marguerite of Anjou when she married Henry VI in 1444. This theory has since been disproved through examination of the costumes depicted in the earlier tapestries of the suite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The weaving devices used to render the most extraordinary richness of silks, velvets and brocades make every tapestry an excuse to enact a costume drama of enormous proportions. The details of the clothing reflect the changing fashions of the two decades in which they were designed and created.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The subject matter is an intricate reflection of the importance of the hunt as court ritual. More than a pastime, hunting skills were highly regarded as an exhibition of ability to perform in conquest, as well as having the practical outcome of contributing game for the dinner tables of the aristocracy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We had our lunch in the splendid Victorian circular room that serves as a cafeteria - every inch of it is covered in decorated ceramic tiles, so overblown with pattern and colour that it verges on complete decadence. The outside courtyard also beckoned, bathed in bright 25 degree sunshine. A crowd of young children splashed in the shallow pool all day, their exuberance ringing through the serious halls of antique treasures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Afterwards we viewed the Raphael Cartoons for the <i style="font-weight: bold;">Acts of the Apostles</i>, sombre in the vast hall that houses them. Commissioned by Pope Leo X in 1515, Raphael designed ten tapestries illustrating the Acts of the Apostles to decorate the side walls of the Sistine chapel. The master weaver, Pietr Van Elst, of Brussels, was commissioned to simply copy the paintings without any freedom of interpretation. Tapestry weavers bowed to the Renaissance domination of painting, finding satisfaction only in flawless reproduction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The popular success of these tapestries led to the replication of these cartoons in woven form many times over in the following century. One example, <b><i>The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, </i></b>woven at Mortlake in the 1600s, hangs alongside the cartoons, barely indistinguishable from them except for its swirling Baroque border.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Upstairs, in the British rooms hangs a small William Morris tapestry, <i style="font-weight: bold;">Angeli Ministrates,</i> designed by Edward Burne - Jones with a background and border by weaver and designer John Dearle who was Morris' first apprentice. Morris' philosophy allowed the weaver, once again, to make an important visual contribution to tapestry design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Other delights to be experienced at the V&A were the newly redesigned <b>Fashion and Textiles</b> area and a gorgeous exhibition - <b> Ballgowns : British Glamour since 1950</b>, which flamboyantly displays sixty years of stylish evening wear. </span><br />
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