ANTIQUE AUBUSSON TAPESTRY
ANTIQUE AUBUSSON TAPESTRY | PARIS | GALERIE JABERT
ANTIQUE AUBUSSON TAPESTRY | PARIS | GALERIE JABERT
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Aubusson Tapestry:
Tapestries are ornamental weavings made by hand by weavers on a loom.
The decoration is made at the same time as the support. They are artists painters who draw and paint the models.
then scaled by the cardboard makers to be executed by the selvedges.
In France, since the XVIth century, many tapestry workshops had settled in Aubusson and Felletin in
the Limousin. They became royal manufacture in 1665 under Louis XIV. It was mainly used to weave wool
tint. The subjects could be naturalistic (the greens) or historical like the tapestries of Gramont of which
the themes were drawn from ancient mythology. Decorative borders embellished the works.
Luxury furniture, tapestries were part of the seigniorial way of life. Hanging on the walls, they were
decorative, warmed the walls in winter, and could be easily transported from one castle to another.
Nowadays, antique tapestries are unfortunately frequently discoloured due to the action of the
light on dyes, often of vegetable origin, whereas great importance was given to the colours
and the multiplicity of nuances. Only the indigo blue, obtained from the leaves of the indigo tree, is a dyeing
"with the cochineal red from an insect.
The art of tapestry still has its place in Aubusson and Felletin (workshops for restoration and contemporary creation).
ISAAC MOILLON (1614-1673), PAINTER AND CARDBOARD MAKER
Admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting in 1663, Isaac Moillon is one of the great decorative painters of the
Seventeenth century.
A great connoisseur of ancient mythology, he also has some 77 identified tapestry subjects to his credit,
all for the Aubusson workshops. The style of his painted cartoons stands out in particular by the compositions
simple, by the elongated figures of characters with small, fleshy mouths and by the accumulation of objects
of goldsmithing.
Aubusson tapestry has six centuries of history: from the "verdures" of the 15th century, then the Royal Manufactory of 1665, a flourishing beginning of the 20th century, the crisis between the wars and its rebirth thanks to the arrival of Jean Lurçat in 1939. In 2009, UNESCO inscribed "The Aubusson Tapestry" on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, after it was included in the Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in France.
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