William Morris Woodpecker III Wall Tapestry Medieval & Old World Vintage style artwork

Vintage style artwork

It is one of fourteen tapestries illustrating the wars of Louis XIV

This jacquard wall tapestry is a reproduction of

Monet's garden is much today as it was when he painted his famous lake Giverny

a small town south of Amsterdam

William Morris Woodpecker III Wall Tapestry Medieval & Old World Vintage style artworkThis tapestry depicts a woodpecker against an ornate backdrop and was designed by Morris & Co in 1877. Most of the company's production was a collaborative effort involving several artists, but Woodpecker is unusual in that it was one of the very few tapestries designed by William Morris in its entirety. It shows a woodpecker sitting in the branch of a fruit tree and features Morris' distinctive ornate background of leaves and his legendary attention