Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") metallic glazed I would guess they date

I would guess they date from the 1940s or so

9" l x 5 5/16" d x 5 3/8" t and in very good

That one was part of a very old Punch and Judy puppet set

and made all the better by careful crayon coloring in yellow and green on a number of the excellent illustrations

With small nails on their back sides

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") metallic glazed I would guess they dateI'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