MAHAUT, COUNTESS OF ARTOIS 



added. One of this company of Boulogne artists 

 later on became Court-painter to the Dukes of 

 Burgundy, and took with him not only his 

 trained apprentices from the towns and villages 

 of Artois, and from those bordering on Flanders, 

 but also, doubtless, certain traditions. It is such 

 early migrations of artists, when schools were 

 forming, that have helped to create the difficult 

 problems which confront the student of all early 

 schools of art. 



Of embroidery there was such profusion 

 that it is indeed no exaggeration to say that the 

 needle vied with the sword. There were not 

 only wall and bed hangings, embroidered with 

 flowers to brighten winter days, cloaks, gowns, 

 and tunics patterned with gold thread and 

 coloured silks, and beaver hats wrought with 

 gold lace and pearls and sometimes precious 

 stones, but also girdles, satchels, purses, and 

 pennons resplendent with heraldic device, and 

 caparison and harness for the horses. From the 

 East were brought velvets, silks, and stuffs inter- 

 woven with gold and silver thread, and used not 

 only for personal adornment, but also for vest- 

 ments, Church-hangings, and the coverings of 

 litters. As regards tapestry as we understand 

 it i.e. woven in a high warp loom there is 

 apparently no definite mention of its being made 

 at Arras before 1313, so that the numerous 

 allusions to tapestry must refer to stuffs woven 

 in the low warp loom. These stuffs would 

 seem to have been of two kinds, the one woven 



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