The Art of Tapestry

Examines the subject in technical and art historical terms and is profusely illustrated with images that convey the diversity and appeal of these remarkable - and sometimes undervalued - works of art. * Country Life *
[This] book offers a very original approach to the art of tapestry, based on example objects from this catalogue…The illustrations are of very high quality, revealing many unknown or lesser-known tapestries in British country houses and castles. * Textile History *
The book will be enlightening for any country-house buff and decorator who wants to know more about the historic tapestries they encounter in English country houses. It will also be an essential reference for historians of English visual culture, providing a fascinating account of the rise and fall and rise again of tapestry as an art form in its own right and as a medium of traditional splendour. – Tom Campbell, Director of the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco
This beautifully illustrated book looks at how tapestries were made, how they were used as political tools and how they came into and out of fashion. […] it’s a fascinating look at an art form that doesn’t get the same attention as paintings. – Tabish Khan * FAD Magazine *

Helen Wyld studied history of art at the Courtauld Institute. She spent four years researching the National Trust’s tapestry collection, funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and has worked as a curator for the National Trust for Scotland and as Senior Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She is now Senior Curator of Historic Textiles at the National Museum of Scotland, where she is responsible for Scottish and European textiles from the medieval period to 1850.

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