Rebecca Quinton talked to the Friends on 27 September about
the tapestries and the book which has just been published by Glasgow museums.
She entitled her talk A Hunt for Fidelity
and ably led us from the 14th century to the 17th century
with examples of tapestries in the collection. She not only gave us the date of
the tapestry but also its origin. Many of these come from the northern
countries, from the Southern Netherlands, from France and from Germany. The tapestries
varied in size from a small tapestry, which could be hung in a normal room, to
very large tapestries designed for hanging in churches and great halls. The
book covers about 200 tapestries and Becky covered nearly 40 of them! We are
grateful to her for a clear, beautifully illustrated and comprehensive lecture.
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