Art tapestries - woven tapestry art

Art Tapestries

Art tapestries are at the core of woven tapestries. Chronologically, these range from medieval tapestries to contemporary art including all the great art movements. In our blog we discuss and illustrate medieval, Old Masters and renaissance masterpieces, Francois Boucher and elegant French designs, Pre-Raphaelites and Arts and Crafts, Impressionism and Art Nouveau, through to the modern designs of today.

It is no accident that we called ourselves Tapestry Art Designs!

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Bob Pejman art tapestries – memories or dreams

January 9, 2016

Our Bob Pejman art tapestries collection comprises many romantic landscapes tapestry designs: idyllic old-world scenes in settings like Lake Como, Venice, Capri, Tuscany and the Amalfi Coast.We are pleased to feature these in the Landscapes section of our Contemporary tapestries. These are favourite places in…

Impressionist tapestries

January 9, 2016

Impressionist tapestries We have some new Impressionist tapestries by Monet, Renoir and Gauguin. That is, new tapestries of old paintings by these Impressionist masters. Weavers in France and Belgium have released several Impressionist tapestries recently, seemingly a trend; one we approve of thoroughly. These two,…

The most popular tapestries

January 9, 2016

What are the most popular tapestries? Would a list help to guide you about which will most suit your home setting? Should this be an objective list chosen from our QuickBooks reports or a subjective list decided by degrees of customer liking? Our tapestry website…

Monet and Modigliani – contrasts in life and art

January 9, 2016

One of our French tapestry weavers has just released the first ever tapestries of a Modigliani painting. Noting that Modigliani and Monet died within a few years of each other it seemed interesting to explore the similarities and differences between these two contemporaneous artists. Both…

Alphonse Mucha tapestries

January 9, 2016

Alphonse Mucha tapestries, together with a selection of Gustav Klimt designs, form the extremely popular Art Nouveau collection. Over 15 years ago one of our supplying European weavers bought up another tapestry weaver and promptly dropped the Four Seasons tapestries by Mucha. We expressed disappointment…

Monets Garden tapestry - horizontal, woven in Belgium

Monet’s Garden tapestry and the Cat

January 9, 2016

The Monet's Garden tapestry shown here is one of our most popular tapestries, having numerous different interpretations (horizontal, vertical and square) of Claude Monet's delightful lake garden and its iconic bridge at Giverny in Normandy. Monet lived there for over 40 years and today we…

Gustav Klimt tapestries

January 9, 2016

Gustav Klimt tapestries designs are the most noticeable new trend in tapestry weaving. Several French, Belgian and Italian weavers have produced some gorgeous designs.We will be exhibiting our European tapestries at a trade show in early March and one wall of the booth will consist…

Ancient Art Tapestries

January 9, 2016

Cave paintings as ancient art tapestries? This was an unusual conversation topic for me this morning with my naturopathic doctor.I was having some acupuncture treatment and we talked about the depiction of cave paintings in tapestry art as she slowly turned me into a pin…

Quest for the Holy Grail tapestries

January 9, 2016

The Quest for the Holy Grail tapestries - in 1895-6 Sir Edward Burne-Jones designed a series of six panels with the overall name "The Arming and Departure of the Knights". It was commissioned for a baronial dining hall from Morris and Co. Fortunately for us,…