This is a high quality, limited edition, ROYAL PARIS Tapestry kit. The canvas is 100% COTTON, 100 x 135 cm, made in France and is a design from a series of tapestries in the Cluny Museum titled La Dame a la Licorne and among the best known of all ancient tapestries. This one is called A Mon Seul Desir, original woven in Brussells in 1470. Highly detailed and exquisite needlepoint.
It is supplied with the Laine COLBERT DMC pour tapisserie (wool for tapestry) Art. 486 needed for this tapestry: 100% pure virgin 4ply wool skeins.
This kit was bought new by my family friend, and she has stored it carefully but never used it! Now she’s stopped tapestry needlepoint and has given me this kit to sell.
To buy new it would cost RRP Price: $957.00 (approx £800!) No reserve on listing!
So grab a complete bargain, just the wool in this kit would cost approx £200 to buy!
ROYAL PARIS
A broder avec D.M.C. Laine 482
N° 166 61
DAME A LA LICORNE «A MON SEUL DESIR >>
MADE IN FRANCE
100% COTTON
100 x 135 cm (39 1/2 × 53 1/4")
DAME A LA LICORNE «A MON SEUL DESIR >> which translates to: Lady and the Unicorn «My Sole Desire>>
RRP Price: $957.00 (approx £800!)
Product IDRP166-61
Design is from a series of tapestries in the Cluny Museum titled La Dame a la Licorne and among the best known of all ancient tapestries. This one is called A Mon Seul Desir, original woven in Brussells in 1470. Highly detailed and exquisite needlepoint
Design: 33" x 47" Canvas: 39.5" x 53.25" 10 Count (Penelope)
Optional kit includes, in addition to the printed canvas, your choice of threads for the Half-Cross Stitch.
Laine COLBERT DMC pour tapisserie (wool for tapestry) Art. 486
10 ECHEVETTES in each box - each echevette of 8 METERS
This is the total summary of the number of Skeins for each colour:
7579 x 10
7307 x 24
7125 x 31
7209 x 19
7143 x 10
7184 x 4
7211 x 4
7232 x 8
7468 x 3
7421 x 5
Blanc x 1
7174 x 2
7444 x 3
7505 x 3
7727 x 6
7579 x 9
7371 x 9
7542 x 10 (+one extra not needed for the kit but must’ve been given when bought)
7406 x 5
7306 x 7
7304 x 7
7302 x 8
I have counted them out to check if there is all the wool needed for this kit, and it is complete (please see the tapestry kit card with details). There are 189 total! These 100% pure virgin 4ply wool skein are made for tapestry, needlepoint, crewel and other hand embroidery techniques.
Touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight... These six tapestries, woven in around 1500, represent the five senses against a detailed red background.
The remaining sixth sense, explained only by the inscription “À mon seul désir” (To my only desire), has inspired countless theories. Without excluding a possible meaning in the register of courtly love, it could be a reference to free will: the woman with her decorative headdress and refined clothing, renouncing temporal pleasures.
These “millefleurs” (“thousand flowers”) tapestries are characterized by an abundance of flora, including flowers, orange trees, pines, hollies and oaks, and are inhabited by a peaceable bestiary (a monkey, dogs, rabbits and a heron). In this idyllic natural setting conducive to contemplation, the unicorn by turns a participant and a simple spectator. Accompanied by a lion, it sports the coat of arms of the Le Viste family in every scene.
The Lady and the Unicorn wall-hanging was acquired in 1882. It is now considered one of the great masterpieces of Western art.