XX BORDERS 201 XXI TAPESTRY MARKS 216 XXII HOW IT IS MADE 226 XXIII THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY 241 XXIV TO-DAY 249 BEST PERIODS AND THEIR DATES 265 INDEX 267 ILLUSTRATIONS HERSE AND MERCURY (_Coloured Plate_) _Frontispiece_ Renaissance Brussels Tapestry, Italian Cartoon. W. de Pannemaker, weaver. Collection of George Blumenthal, Esq., New York FACING PAGE CHINESE TAPESTRY 14 Chien Lung Period COPTIC TAPESTRY 15 About 300 A. D. COPTIC TAPESTRY 16 Boston Museum of Fine Arts COPTIC TAPESTRY 17 Boston Museum of Fine Arts TAPESTRY FOUND IN GRAVES IN PERU 18 Date prior to Sixteenth Century THE SACRAMENTS (_Coloured Plate_) 34 Arras Tapestry, about 1430. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York THE SACRAMENTS 38 Arras Tapestry, about 1430 THE SACRAMENTS 39 Arras Tapestry, about 1430 FIFTEENTH CENTURY, FRENCH TAPESTRY 40 Boston Museum of Fine Arts THE LIFE OF CHRIST 41 Flemish Tapestry, second half of Fifteenth Century. Boston Museum of Fine Arts LA BAILLEE DES ROSES 42 French Tapestry, about 1450. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York FIFTEENTH CENTURY MILLEFLEUR WITH ARMS 43 Cathedral of Troyes THE LADY AND THE UNICORN 44 French Tapestry, Fifteenth Century. Musee de Cluny, Paris THE LADY AND THE UNICORN 45 French Tapestry, Fifteenth Century. Musee de Cluny, Paris THE SACK OF JERUSALEM (DETAIL) 46 Burgundian Tapestry, about 1450. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF CHRIST, WITH ARMORIAL SHIELDS 48 Flemish Tapestry, Fifteenth Century. Institute of Art, Chicago HISTORY OF THE VIRGIN 49 Angers Cathedral DAVID AND BATHSHEBA 50 German Tapestry, about 1450