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Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone, from Orpheus and Eurydice or The Metamorphoses
Wauters Workshop
Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
Warp: Count: 7 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of three Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.8–1.0 mm
Weft: Count: varies from 18 to 40 wefts per cm; wool: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; pairs of S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–1.1 mm; silk: Z-ply of two S-twisted elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm · 1675
Art Institute of Chicago
Pygmalion from Stories from Ovid
Wauters Workshop
Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
Warp: Count: 6 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of three Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–1.0 mm
Weft: Count: varies from 16 to 32 wefts per cm; wool: pairs of S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.6–1.2 mm; silk: pairs of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.7–1.0 mm · 1665
Art Institute of Chicago