Hanging the Troy Tapestry | Time-Lapse

The Tudors loved how tapestries could tell stories at a monumental scale within their palaces. Pliable and portable, these massive textiles woven in the Southern Netherlands clothed bare walls, bringing insulation, texture, and color to royal and noble homes. Keeping up with the movement of the court, the staff of the Great Wardrobe—a royal department responsible for furnishings—continuously installed and deinstalled tapestries. These great wool and silk images shifted between different palaces, rolled up and transported by horse and cart. Watch The Met’s Textile Conservators install a tapestry depicting the Trojans preparing for war, from the Story of Troy series, likely originally owned by Henry VII. Featured Artwork: Andromache and Priam urging Hector not to go to war, from an eleven- piece set of the Story of Troy, designed by the Coëtivy Master (French, active ca. 1455- 75), probably Brussels, before 1488. Wool (warp), wool, silk (wefts), 190 x 104 in. (482.6 x 264.2 cm.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1939 () Subscribe for new content from The Met: #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of Art