Tapestry of muted warm beige hues of greens, pinks, and purples of a scene of Bedouin men and women gathered at a desert oasis with horses, camel, palm trees, and fern-like plants; men and women are gathering water into vessels.
Part of a tapestry that hangs in front of a doorway (portiere) of hand-woven off-white wool with large painterly floral design at center and floral vines at the sides; varied use of color in browns, pinks, greens and pale yellows.
Tapestry hanging of hand-woven off-white silk with a landscape pattern with trees, gazebo, and mountains in grey-greens, blues, browns, and grey with black and gilded gold outline; fringe at top. The Kesi weaving technique came to Japan from China in the 1400's. The Chinese used shuttles of separate bobbins of threads to weave the designs. The Japanese used their fingernails to weave, sometimes they would serrate the edges of their nails to aide the process. The Japanese called the technique tsuzure-ori "nail weaving" or fingernail weave. More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%27o-ssu
Tapestry of natural tan woven linen with a painting of several captions set in various architectural settings in colors of green, dark blue, brown, ochre, and red; the captions tell the story of the events of the Norman Conquest of England concerning various leaders/rulers; the writing is in Medieval Latin; fringe at bottom; Bayeux Tapestry design. More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry_tituli
Tapestry of bright red-orange heavy-weight, ribbed silk with metallic gold emblem of a family crest (Kamon) on one side; the other side has Ikat-like lines of metallic gold on warm beige ground with a partial design of dragons, sun, clouds, and geometric designs in an oval band of fire-like designs; a second emblem of a wrapped pole and a pipe-like emblem with a hole in one side; gold knotted tassels at each of the four corners. This Kamon, family emblem, might be Toyotomi.
Tapestry of green heavy-weight ribbed woven silk with a white medallion emblem and a gold Japanese character; this is a family crest, called Kamon in Japan; the white emblem is a plant crest called Ume-mon (Japanese crests of plum). The tapestry would be hung in the center so both the Japanese character and the emblem would hang in the correct position.
Part of a tapestry of hand-woven wool in shades of green and brown in a design of tree trunks and a winding ivy vine with leaves; design is large with stylized shading.
