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pandagopanda's review against another edition
This book came to me in a job-lot of tatty second hand books about tapestries, which I expected to use for visual references or to cannibalise for collage. It's a pretty dry art history of tapestries during what is described as their heyday from the c14th to the c18th. For a small book, it has a lot of good quality full colour plates, and it has detailed histories of various European styles and workshops (or at least, their masters) and the patrons who commissioned them. What it lacks is any historical or social context for these works and those who made them, and any explanation of techniques, equipment, or materials, which I would have rather liked.
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