Tapestry reading lists

General

Bertrand, Pascal-François. Histoire de la tapisserie en Europe du Moyen Age a nos jours. Paris: Flammarion, 1995

Campbell, Thomas P. Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence. Ex. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002

Campbell, Thomas P., Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty. Tapestries at the Tudor Court, Yale University Press, 2007

Campbell, Thomas P. (ed.) , Tapestry in the Baroque. Threads of Splendor, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2007

Goebel, Heinrich. Wandteppiche. 3 vols. Leipzig: Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1923-34

Guiffrey, Jules. Les Tapisseries du XIIe à la fin du XVIe siècle. Paris: E. Levy, 1911

Guiffrey, Jules. La Tapisserie. Paris: Picard, 1904

Hartkamp-Jonxis, Ebeltje, Weaving Myths. Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Diana Tapestries in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2009 [Also in Dutch]

Havard, Henry. La Tapisserie. Paris, 1895

Heinz, Dora. Medieval Tapestries. London: Methuen, 1965

Jarry, M. World Tapestry from its Origins to the Present. New York, 1969

Marquet de Vasselot, J. J. & Roger-Armand Weigert. Bibliographie des tapisseries des tapis et de la broderie en France. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1935

Müntz, L. F. E. La Tapisserie. Paris,1882

Quye, Anita, Hallett, Kathryn and Herrero Carretero, Concha, “Wrought in gold and silk” : preserving the art of historic tapestries. Edinburgh, National Museums Scotland in association with Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 2009

Rapp Buri, Anna and Monica Stucky-Schrer, Burgundische Tapisserien, München (Hirmer Verlag), 2001

Souchal, Geneviève. Chefs-d'Oeuvre de la Tapisserie du XIV au XVI siècle. October 1973 - January 1974, Paris: Grand Palais, 1973

Thomson, W. G. A History of Tapestry from the Earliest Times until the Present Day. London, 1973

Verlet, Pierre et al. The Book of Tapestry. New York: Vendome Press, 1977

Tapestries in the V&A

Cole, A. S. A Descriptive Catalog of the Collections of Tapestry and Embroidery in the South Kensington Museum. London: South Kensington Museum, 1886

Franco-British Exhibition of Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: 1921

Kendrick, A. F.Catalogue of Tapestries. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924.

Turner, Hilary L. ‘Tapestries once at Chastleton House and their influence on the image of the tapestries called Sheldon: a re-assessment’, Antiquaries Journal, vol 88 2008, pp. 313-343

Wingfield Digby, George, F., assisted by Wendy Hefford. The Tapestry collection: Medieval and Renaissance. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980

Wingfield Digby, George, F., assisted by Wendy Hefford. The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971

Woolley, Linda. Medieval Life and Leisure in the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries. London: V&A Publications, 2002

Tapestries in other collections

Bapasola, Jeri. Threads of History: The Tapestries at Blenheim Palace. Oxford, 2005

Bennett, Anna. Five Centuries of Tapestries from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1978

Biryuhova, N.Y. The Hermitage, Leningrad: Gothic and Renaissance Tapestries. London: Hamlyn, 1965

Bremer-David, Charissa. 'French & Company and American Collections of Tapestries, 1907-1959', Studies in the Decorative Arts XI, no.1 (Fall-Winter 2003-2004): 38-67

Brosens, Koenraad. European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, C.C. Mayer Thurman (ed.), with contributions by P.-F. Bertrand, C. Bremer-David, E. Cleland, N. Forti Grazzini, Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2008

Carpets and Tapestries from the Burrell Collection. June 23 - August 16, 1969. Glasgow: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, 1969

Cavallo, Adolph. Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993

Cavallo, Adolph. Textiles: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston, Mass.: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1986

Cavallo, Adolph. Tapestries of Europe and Colonial Peru in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, Mass.: Museum of Fine Arts, 1967, 2 vols

Delmarcel, Guy, Nicole de Reyniès and Wendy Hefford, La Collection Toms. Tapisseries du XVIe au XIXe siècle / The Toms Collection. Tapestries of the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, ed. Giselle Eberhardt-Cotton, Lausanne (Fondation Toms Pauli & Sulgen, Verlag Niggli AG) 2010. 339 p.; ISBN 978-3-7212-0732-3 (French edition) / 978-3-7212-0731-6 (English edition)

Evans, Mark and Browne, Clare, with Nesselrath, Arnold, eds,.Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel, London, V&A Publishing, 2010. With contributions by Anna Maria de Strobel, Mark Heydu and Adalbert Roth

Garcia Calvo, Margarita. 'Tapestries of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. New Pieces of Francisco Tons' Workshop in Pastrana', B'05. Museo de Bella Artes de Bilbao. Bulletin 1 (2005): 67-90

Golovanova, M.,'European tapestries in the collection of Moscow Kremlin Museum', in: Material and Research. Vol. XVIII: Decorative and Applied Arts of Western Europe, Moscow 2006: 280-305. [the title is translated from Russian; the article is written in Russian and has no abstract in English; ISBN 5-88678-151-X]

Hartkamp-Jonxis, Ebeltje and Smit, Hille. European Tapestries in the Rijksmuseum. 2004.

Heyning, Katie, De tapijten van Zeeland, Zeeuws Museum (Middelburg) 2007. ISBN 978907438072; English version: ISBN 9789074038089

Jonquera de Vega, Paulina and Herrero Carretero, Concha, Catalogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, Vol I, Siglo XVI, vol II Siglo XVII Madrid 1986 Vol III Siglo XVIII Madrid 2000

Joubert, Fabienne. La Tapisserie Médiévale au Musée Cluny. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987

Marillier, Henry C.The Tapestries at Hampton Court Palace. London: HMSO, 1931, 1951, 1962

Mankin, Urve, Tallinn rae piltvaibad. Tallinn Town Council’s Tapestries, Tallinna (Linna muuseum) 2004. (31 pages; ISBN 9949-10-398-3)

Standen, Edith. European Post Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2 vols., New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987

Woldbye, Vibeke. European Tapestries, 15th-20th Century. Catalogue of the Collection of The Danish Museum of Art & Design. Copenhagen, 2006

Flemish tapestries

Brosens, Koenraad and Guy Delmarcel. Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections: Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003

Delmarcel, Guy. Flemish Tapestry Weavers Abroad: Emigration and the Founding of Manufactories in Europe. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002

Delmarcel, Guy. Flemish Tapestry. London: Thames & Hudson, 1999

Goebel, Heinrich. Tapestries of the Lowlands. New York: Hacker, 1974

Janssen, Elsje. Tapestries in Belgium. Liege: Pierre Mardaga, 1996

Jordan Gschwend, Annemarie. 'The Manufacture and Marketing of Flemish Tapestries in Mid-Sixteenth Century Brussels. Two Habsburg Patrons and Collectors: Mary of Hungary and Catherine of Austria'.  Ao Modo da Flandes. Disponibilidade, Inovaçâo e Mercado de Arte na Epoca dos Descobrimentos, (1415-1580). Actas do Congresso Internacional Celebrado em a Reitoria da Universidade de Lisboa. Edited by Bernardo J. Garcia & Fernando Grillo. Madrid: Fernando Villaverde Ediciones, 2005, pp.91-113.

Quina, Maria Antonia and Rafael Moreira. The Flemish Tapestries in the Museu de Lamego, Lisboa (Instituto Portugues de Museus) 2006. (184 pp.; ISBN 972-776-071-6)

English tapestries

Four Hundred Years of English Tapestries on Exhibition at the Vigo-Sternberg Galleries. London: Vigo-Sternberg Galleries, 1971

Haynes, Alan. 'The Mortlake Tapestry Factory: 1619-1703'. in History Today. January 1974, pp.32-40

Hefford, Wendy 'The Mortlake Manufactory, 1616-49': 171-189, in Campbell, Thomas P. (ed.), Tapestry in the Baroque. Threads of Splendor, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2007

Hefford, Wendy, 'I Mesi di Mortlake, una serie di arazzi inglesi a Genova', in Genova e l'Europa atlantica. Opere, artisti, committenti, collezionisti. Inghilterra, Fiandra, Portogallo, ed. by Piero Boccardo and Clario Di Fabio, Milan (Silvana Editoriale) 2006: 167-85

Marillier, H. C. English Tapestries of the Eighteenth Century. London: The Medici Society, 1930.

Turner, Hilary L. ‘Finding the Weavers; Richard Hyckes and the Sheldon Tapestry works’, Textile History, 33, no. 2, November 2002, pp.137-161

Turner, Hilary L. ‘”A wittie devise”: the Sheldon tapestry maps belonging to the Bodleian Library, Oxford’, Bodleian Library Record, 17, no.5, April 2002, pp. 293-313

Turner, Hilary L., No Mean Prospect: Ralph Sheldon's Tapestry Maps, Plotwood Press, 2010. ISBN: 978 0 9529920 1 1

French tapestries

Badin, J. La Manufacture de Tapisserie de Beauvais. Paris, 1909

Chefs d'oeuvre de la tapisserie parisienne, 1597-1662. Orangerie, Paris, 1967

Chevalier, D., Chevalier P. and Pascal-François Bertrand. Les Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, 1457-1791. Paris, 1988

de Reyniès, Nicole & Sylvain Laveissière. Isaac Moillon 1614-1673. Un peintre du Roi à Aubusson. Paris/Aubusson (Somogy Éditions d'Art/Musée départemental de la tapisserie), 2005

Fahrenkamp, H. Gobelins: Bildteppiche und Tappisserien. Munich: Wilhelm Heyne, 1977

Fenaille, M. État Général des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins, Depuis son Origine Jusqu'à nos Jours (1600-1900). 6 vols, Paris, 1899

Weigert, R. A. French Tapestry. London: Faber and Faber, 1962

Italian tapestries

Bertrand, Pascal-François. Les tapisseries des Barberini et la décoration d'intérieur dans la Rome baroque. Studies in Western Tapestry. Vol. 2, edited by G. Delmarcel & K. Brosen. Turnhout (Brepols), 2005

Stefanini Sorrentino, Matilde. Arazzi Medicei a Pisa. Firenze, 1993

Valsecchi, Marco. Gli Arazzi dei Mesi del Bramantino. Milano, 1968

Viale Ferrero, Mercedes. Arazzi Italiani del Cinquecento. Milano, 1961

Zanni, Annalisa (ed.). Le imprese tessute di Amadigi di Gaula. Due arazzi del Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Milan (Museo Poldi Pezzoli/Silvia Editrice) 2005

Further references to academic work in progress can be found at www.studiesinwesterntapestry.net