Buy premium quality wall-hanging tapestries, fabrics and cushions

Fleur de Lys Tapestries offers an extensive collection of wall-hanging tapestries, fabrics and tapestry cushions

About our collection

Our collection offers an extensive range of tapestries, cushions, and fabrics suitable for decorative and functional home-furnishing. Skilled craftsmen create these quality articles in many attractive textures, capturing the atmosphere of the originals. The designs range from the 11th Century to the 19th Century, featuring the historical Bayeux Tapestry of Norman times to the decorative ‘Arts and Craft’ style of the Victorian era. Fine quality materials border and line them, making them ready for hanging in entrance halls, dining areas, lounge rooms, and other areas of your home where an object d’art can be appreciated.

Woven and Silkscreen

You can choose between woven or silkscreen tapestries. Loom-woven tapestries are produced on Jacquard looms, involving the interweaving of warp and weft yarns of different colors to create the design. The setting up and control of the looms is a highly skilled and delicate operation requiring much attention to detail. On the other hand, silkscreens are high-quality reproductions of the original works hanging in places such as the Louvre, Chateaux in the Loire Valley, and in private homes in Europe. The emphasis is on recreating the atmosphere and visual impact of the classic masterpieces.

Both types of tapestries are ideal investment and heirloom pieces that are major talking points in any house or office. Nobility and scholars throughout history have collected and preserved these works of art due to the nature of tapestry fabric. Now, you can see these works of art in palaces and museums throughout the world or own a piece of history and culture to savour and preserve for yourself. Our collection offers most of history’s finest tapestries reproduced for you in different sizes, as detailed in the enlargements.

We take pride in providing the finest works of art in the world, and we hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

Chivalry & Heraldry     Coats of arms and heraldic devices have appeared in tapestry from medieval times. Whether as badges nestling in fields of millefleurs or as elaborate schematics dominating an entire tapestry, these fascinating weavings still inspire our interest in their original owners and continue to serve their intended purpose to impress.

Norman & Medieval    In Norman times, tapestries were usually commissioned by royalty or nobility and depicted important events or activities, being used often as much for practical purposes as for decoration.

Medieval ‘Mille-Fleur’ Tapestries     In the 15th Century, tapestries usually depicted a theme and often illustrated scenes from everyday life. The distinctive ‘Mille-Fleurs’ (‘thousand flowers’) style which originated during this period, is thought to be inspired from the custom of strewing cut flowers on fête days in Medieval times. Perhaps the finest surviving examples are the series of ‘The Lady with the Unicorn’ tapestries, which were woven circa 1490.

Renaissance  The Renaissance brought new impetus to tapestry design during the 16th and 17th Centuries with vibrant colours, richly-decorated borders and depth of perspective. Royalty and nobility often commissioned sets of tapestries to be woven, with themes such as the seasons or months of the year.

Verdures     Many ‘Verdure’ (foliage) tapestries were woven throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries, featuring wooded landscapes, reflecting the interest in botanical themes during this period. The Renaissance also influenced the ‘Aristolochia’ (or ‘large leaves’) style, depicting birds and animals amidst prolific foliage.

Landscapes Pastorals & Maritimes In the 18th Century many tapestry designs were produced that resembled the style of paintings from this period. The subjects which were commissioned were often landscapes or pastoral scenes, usually with more realistic perspective than the traditional verdures of an earlier period. Maritime scenes were popular subjects with the Flemish weavers, fishing and trading being the main activities of the northern ports. The themes of tapestries produced in Flanders often portrayed scenes from daily life, and represented an attempt to compete with the French pastoral scenes.