Woven entirely by hand on a loom, a tapestry like this took a weaver the better part of a year, working only a few inches at a time. The scene is a verdure, a deep green woodland with a white heron at the water's edge, birds half hidden in the trees, and the towers of a château just visible through the leaves. Found in Béziers, it came out of a château in Normandy and dates to the early 18th century, bordered all the way around in flowers and scrolling vines. Tapestries like it once hung in the cold stone rooms of grand houses, as much to hold in the warmth as to be admired, and a single one could be worth more than everything else in the room. Sylvie hangs it on a long bare wall where it softens the whole room, the green of it shifting every time the light moves across the threads.
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