Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") vintage monkey whose bawling I'd deem as

whose bawling I'd deem as fair based on the smug look on the face of the boy walking away

which from what I understand were made by members of Native American tribes (most often cited as Iroquois

The frame is wired on the back for hanging

I immediately thought of Velasquez’s “las Meninas

I just don't have it in me not to take charge of things like this

Amazing 16th Century Belgian Mille Fleur Wool Tapestry Fragment (47" x 21") vintage monkey whose bawling I'd deem asI've done my best documenting this, but it's a different thing holding it in your hands and see up close and feel viscerally the amount of skill and labor that went into making it hundreds of years ago. (The back gives some sense of that labor.) It is a fragment of a tapestry, which itself came out of a historic textile collection held by a textile mill. (I purchased it from a favorite dealer in Vermont who often acquires interesting things