Sentence examples for tapestry factory from inspiring English sources

Thiès is also home to the Manufactures Sénégalaises des Arts Décoratifs, a tapestry factory.

After illustrating an edition of Molière's works, he drew cartoons of farmyard scenes and chinoiserie for the Beauvais tapestry factory.

He also became head of the Royal Gobelin tapestry factory, for which he produced many ambitious designs.

Until 1589 most of the elaborate fabrics in France were of Italian origin, but in that year Henry IV founded the royal carpet and tapestry factory at Savonnières.

The Beauvais tapestry factory, which in the 17th and 18th centuries produced many tapestries of exceptionally high quality, was destroyed in World War II.

He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1734 and then became the principal producer of designs for the royal porcelain factories, as well as director of the Gobelins tapestry factory.

During the 18th century and afterward, many tapestry-woven carpets were made at Aubusson as well as at other tapestry factories.

Such famous tapestry factories as Aubusson and Lille in France specialized in the production of verdures, especially those of small dimensions used as upholstery and pillow covers.

Together with the already established finishing works of (English) cloth, tapestry, and silk factories, the sugar refineries, and the diamond industry, they made Antwerp one of the greatest industrial centres of western Europe.

Catherine's encouragement of Russian skills and industry, often brought about through importing foreign craftsmen, is also apparent; there are gorgeous examples of the elaborately crafted steel furniture made at the Tula factory, tapestries and the vases and obelisks that were created from the newly discovered minerals of agate, quartz and carnelian.

Delft, where Vermeer was born and spent his artistic career, was an active and prosperous place in the mid-17th century, its wealth based on its thriving Delftware factories, tapestry-weaving ateliers, and breweries.