The Tapestry Book

The Tapestry Book is Helen Churchill Candee’s readable history of woven pictures, from the great medieval hangings of France and Flanders to the royal workshops of the Gobelins and Beauvais. She explains how tapestry was made, how to tell one country’s work and period from another, and how these costly textiles carried stories of faith, myth, and power across the walls of castles and churches. Written for collectors and for ordinary readers who wanted to look at tapestry with informed eyes, the book stays clear and practical throughout, and it is illustrated with many examples. This free PDF and EPUB presents the complete work, a useful introduction to one of the oldest of the decorative arts.