Ilske and all I know its off-topic, but if you're like me the question may have excited everyone's curiousity!
I took a fancy to this set of tapestries when I was living in France in 1979-80, 20 years before my BL days. I was living in Saumur on the banks of the Loire. Then I did lots of counted thread cross stitch, much before it gained popularity in the UK. Saumur had a superb tapestry & embroidery shop which had kits for all the "lady with the unicorn" tapestries available in various sizes etc. I bought a book by Alain Erlande-Brandenburg , Conservateur au Musee de Cluny. It tells the story of a tapestry for each of the 5 senses with the sixth being the triumph of free will. (The lady puts her necklace in a case at the end.) I got hooked on the idea of doing a wool tapestry and bought the kit for the 6th piece. It's 1 metre X 1m 35cm and now, after not being touched for the last 17 years, it's about 1/3 finished! Would anyone like it? (Complete with DMC wool to finish) One of the highlights of my last trip to Paris was to see them "in the flesh" so to speak. They are a magnificent set of tapestries. The book says (if my French is still up to the translation) The tapestries were made in one of the northern France tapestry towns between 1484 and 1500 by an unknown artist Georges Sand discovered them in the chateau at Boussac and wrote about them in her novel "Jeanne" published in 1844. They were acquired by the Musee de Cluny 39 years later It seems they came to Boussac via Jeanne de la Roche Aymon a descendent of the Le Viste family who married Francois de Rilhac in 1660. In 1730 Louise de Rilhac married Francois de Carbonnieres and the tapestries stayed with this family until the chateau was sold in 1837. Viv ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ilske und Peter Thomsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 9:59 AM Subject: [lace] Re: La Dame � Licorne - not lace Dear Lacefriend, Knowing that there are also embroidery and tapestery members I will again ask a not lace-related question. Does anybody know when and how the tapestry "La Dame � Licorne" came into the Cluny Museum at Paris. I saw them twice so I know it and I learned it belonged the Le Vista family at Boussac castle. But what happened over the centuries till it came into the museum. Because it has nothing to do with lace you better answer me privately. Thank you for your help. Greetings from Hamburg in Germany Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
