Found in Béziers, this 20th-century French tapestry weaves a whole afternoon of village life into a single scene, a crowd gathered outside a cottage with a birdcage hanging in the tree above them. The picture borrows from the old Flemish painters who made ordinary people their subject, the drinking, the talking, the children underfoot, all the small business of a day off. Woven hangings like this brought that world onto the walls of ordinary 20th-century homes, the look of a grand tapestry made by machine so anyone could have a piece of it. Sylvie hangs it large on a plain wall where the whole busy scene can be read from across the room.
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