Medieval tapestries

Tapestrycatalogue.com is your online source for beautiful and majestic medieval tapestries and medieval tapestry wall hangings. Our medieval tapestries are often used in offices and homes. Some of our customer favorites include the Medieval List, King Arthur, and others. We offer our tapestries in retail prices to the trade.

Medieval tapestries and accessories are ideal to decorate the walls of your home or office. You could bring a touch of rich medieval history into your home interiors by using these tapestries. Medieval tapestries date back to the Renaissance and the Arts and Crafts periods, and were woven on plush fabrics for hundreds of years by diverse cultures. Both ancient Egyptians and the Incas buried their dead in tapestry woven clothing. Important civic buildings of the Greek Empire, including the Parthenon, had walls covered with tapestry wall hangings. However, it was the French medieval weavers who brought the craft to fruition.

Unicorn tapestries, like the unicorn itself, are one of the marvels of the world, for in no other work of art anywhere is the pursuit and capture of this magical creature presented in such astonishing detail, with great command of pictorial verisimilitude and symbolic intention. In a duality not rare in the late middle ages, the imagery is secular and religious. The references to love, matrimonial fidelity, and desire for progeny are understandable in an ensemble that may have celebrated a marriage. But the unicorn, at the same, is Christ, and the compositions reflect the Incarnation, the Passion, and the Resurrection. Gabriel, the angel of the Annunciation, is one of the hunters; the unicorn loses his fierceness in the lap of the Virgin Mary: and thorny crown encircles his horn and neck when he is slain; and then the glorious creature is miraculously alive again and chained to a pomegranate tree, simultaneously an image of the risen Christ and of lover-bridegroom secured by his adored lady.

Tapestrycatalogue.com offers the largest selection of tapestries, tapestry throws, tapestry handbags, tapestry bell pulls, tapestry runners, and more. All our tapestry cushions, tapestry bolsters, tapestry handbags, and tapestry throws are woven in Europe or in North America on jacquard looms with the best possible quality materials and are priced competitively.