The Gobelins factory of France was famous for these wall hangings & began manufacturing them around 1600
Both of these wall hangings were not woven fabrics but rather embroidered 
work... [DOC] [TLE] Art of the Royal Court | The Metropolitan Museum of Art [PAR] Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe ... 
Renaissance masters working in Rome cut colored marbles and laid them in... [DOC] [TLE] lacquerwork | art | Britannica.com [PAR] These processes kill the tree, but the wood, when of sufficient size, is of some ... 
which become available for the production of lacquer after about six years, and 
.... and then polished down to show them; taka-maki-e, decoration in bold relief; 
..... for the imitation of lacquer practiced at the Gobelins factory in Paris from 1672.