Word: gobelin
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...opening day of the auction saw mostly tapestries put up, "knocked down"-though some of these were so impressively rare as to require more respectful handling than that. A Beauvais specimen went to $130,000 before its seekers got discouraged. A Gobelin brought $95,000. This day's sales totaled...
...white "court dresses" prescribed by Swedish etiquet. Only the ladies of the royal party 'itself were attired as fashion dictates. While the wedding procession formed in an antechamber, King Gustaf of Sweden brought a decorous smile to courtiers' lips peeping out into the Throne Room through the Gobelin portieres. When His Majesty was thus satisfied that all was in readiness, there strode majestically to lead the wedding procession the 80-year-old Court Marshal Printzkiold...
...excessively famed species of tapestry created in the 16th Century by the Gobelin family and manufactured by the State since the days of Louis XIV. Its production requires such extreme skill and care that the most experienced workman can turn out only a few square feet a year, naturally at a price eclipsing that of all but the most valuable oil paintings. The Gobelins, originally a family of dyers from Reims, were able to purchase patents of nobility through the sale of their tapestries and are not mentioned as artisans later than the 17th Century...
...knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian ballet and the beautiful women of Leningrad are flattered to be the friends of Zinoviev. Being very generous, nothing is too precious for his friends. Pearl necklaces, Imperial jewels, famous paintings, Gobelin tapestries are to be found today in the hands of the women who enjoy Zinoviev's friendship...
Theft of the Gobelin tapestries...