Dutch and Flemish Furniture
and little children, and the canopy representing trails
of flowering rose-trees on a red background."
Another set of " high-warp tapestry, worked in
Arras thread and gold " was called " The Chamber of the
Coronation of Our Lady." It was furnished with " a
canopy, a head-board, a bed coverlet, and six curtains,
two of which were worked with gold, and the remaining
four without gold. On each of these were two figures,
the late Duke Anthony of Brabant and his wife and
their children, screened with a small dosser ; the whole
was of Brabant work."
In addition to these superb sets, there were sixty
" saloon tapestries " in which the hangings woven
with gold depicted scenes from famous romances, stories
from Grecian mythology, pastoral scenes, and con-
temporary events.
There were thirty-six dossers, banquiers and thirty-six
hassocks, and nineteen long-pile carpets. Then there
were thirteen " chapel hangings," with religious sub-
jects, an altar-cloth " entirely of gold and silk," besides
high-warp tapestries " of gold and Arras thread."
Philip the Good was also a collector of embroidery.
In his inventory (1420) are mentioned many " chambres "
of velvet and silk, embroidered with gold and silks.
More than thirty famous embroiderers were employed
regularly at the Court of Burgundy.
There was no more valuable possession in the Middle
Ages than tapestry. When Mary of Burgundy was
married to the Duke of Cleves in 1415, one prized item
in her dowry was a " superb bed of tapestry representing
a deer hunt."

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