Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") vintage monkey with an old newspaper (Ben-Day

with an old newspaper (Ben-Day dotted) face on the bottom--perhaps a photo of their maker

Very quiet and very beautiful I think

and with a little research I confirmed it is early Zanesville

and no great mystery why

The frame is wired on the back for hanging

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") vintage monkey with an old newspaper (Ben-DayI've done my best documenting this, but it's a different thing holding it in your hands and see up close and feel viscerally the amount of skill and labor that went into making it hundreds of years ago. (The back gives some sense of that labor.) It is a fragment of a tapestry, which itself came out of a historic textile collection held by a textile mill. (I purchased it from a favorite dealer in Vermont who often acquires interesting things