{HISTORY}

Full of warm color and interesting details, this vintage tapestry pillow was made in France by Craye, a company that has been weaving beautiful tapestries in the Flemish style since the 1860s. Made sometime around the 1960s before the company changed names to Metrax-Craye, this pillow features dogs, bunnies, birds, a menagerie of flowers and a medieval alphabet all set against a brick red background. 

In medieval times, tapestries were great storytellers. Like details in a novel, each scene represented certain themes and each animal represented certain symbols. With that in mind, this pillow is full of romance as it contains bunnies which symbolized fertility, dogs which symbolized fidelity and devotion, and flowers which symbolized the natural world.

Backed with peach velvet, and containing a zippered closure at the bottom edge along with the original hand-numbered manufacturer's sticker, this pillow was beautifully made - a faithful example of Craye's long-standing reputation for artistic design and quality.

Adding a bit of colorful French style to your space, this pillow is sized at 8" inches x 8" inches, a petite size that brings lots of visual interest when paired with larger pillows in square, rectangular and round shapes. Lovely for chairs, sofas, and any other place you like to lounge, we imagine this is the perfect little pillow to relax with while perusing a stack of cookbooks and enjoying a cup of coffee or tea. 

{SPECIAL FEATURES}

• Sized at 8x8
• zippered closure
• colors include brick red, apricot, peach, almond, beige, white, tomato red, evergreen and sage
• contains original manufacturers sticker
• hand-numbered

{CONDITION}

In beautiful vintage condition, this pillow contains no spots, stains or holes. The exterior and interior smell fresh and clean and te interior padding is plump.

{SIZE}

Measures 8" inches x 8" inches and weighs 5.5 oz

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