Les Gobelins

On Saturday afternoon, in order to take a break from bad news, we walked the 20 minutes or so to the Gobelins museum to see the tapestries.

We had a guided tour by a young woman who spoke at a rate of knots and non-stop.  Peter attempted to listen and then hovered politely in the background.  The guide seemed very knowledgeable and I learned a lot about the various kings who had commissioned tapestries for palaces, the changes in the fashion for subject matter, the use of dyes and the transference of the design from paintings done to order.   I've always thought it was a shame that tapestries became so faded and it turns out that they were made in muted colours on purpose in the first place and were never brightly coloured.   Tapestries aren't something we particularly like but at least one of us knows something more about them now!