Ephemera · 5 pages · French
A set of early 20th-century sepia picture postcards of the Manufacture des Gobelins in Paris, the French national tapestry works. Views include the dye workshop, the chemistry laboratory, weavers at high-warp (haute-lisse) looms, a museum gallery hung with tapestries, the stone staircase, and the Bièvre river. The cards show workshop equipment and working conditions in tapestry production.