An Introduction to tapestries

www.vam.ac.uk/collections/textiles

More pictures of tapestries in the V&A can be seen at

collections.vam.ac.uk or at www.vandaimages.com

Tapestries on the web: explore

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections?ft=tapestry

Tapestries at the Chicago Institute of Art : The Divine Art : Four Centuries of European Tapestries

www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/divineart/index

Background Reading for tapestries in other styles

www.vam.ac.uk/collections/textiles/resources/reading/tapestry/index.html

For academic work in progress, look at

www.arts.kuleuven.be/studiesinwesterntapestry

The text of William Camden's Britannia , in the English translation of 1610, much later than the weaving of the map tapestries, can be read at