the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

essays on the three-hole pipe

Europe: decorative arts

interior design, textiles

 
c1350
c1350c1350 chasuble:
pillar orphrey of silk embroidery
Cologne, Germany
 
1510-15201510-1520 tapestry, Netherlands 1500-15101500-1510 tapestry, Netherlands Frernch tapestryearly 16th century tapestry:
'Music', Tournai, France
16th century16th century embroidered border (detail), Florence, Italy
1530-1550
1530-1550
1530-1550 tapestry, Tournai, Flemish (Belgium)
1540 - 45
1540 - 45
1540 - 1545 tapestry [detail], Flemish but made in Mantua, Italy
1670 1670 1670 18th century 18th century
1670 ‘The soap bubble’ hanging of children's games, Beauvais, France

18th century tapestry fragment
1720-1740 lace
1720-1740 lace player
1720-1740 Flemish lace panel: possible taborer in musically themed lace cravat end.
He has his left hand in ther correct position and the right hand looks to be holding
a drum-stick.
c1770c.1770 fabric print player
1790
1790 printed fabric, France (other images here and here)
1780 1780
1780-1795 man's silk embroidered waistcoat, France
1780
1750to1800ChinesePanel18th century panel with
Chinese decoration, France
 
Between 1785 and 1795
Between 1785 and 1795 Between 1785 and 1795

 

between 1785 and 1795 waistcoat, hand embroidery, France
 
sailors danceRecord 1790 printed fabric
Pipe and tabor player for two male youth dancers. (Full textile design here)
France
Frederick R. Selch Collection of American Music History
Inventory of Series 2: Visual Materials

1786-1800 southern Germany

Fabric:
A bird on a pillar spews water into a vase filled with flowers, surrounded by stylized flowers. In between, a street musician plays with
a one-handed flute and drum.

 
1800 possisble taborer, France 1800

printed fabric 1810-25
France
printed fabric 1825
France
copy of medieval tapestry

 

taborercanvaswork drummer
uknown origin [more details here]
silk brocade, France tapestry 1785, possible three-hole pipe, France
18th century cushionsmid 18th century emboidered cushions
embroidery mid 18th century
canvas-work, England
1840'stapestry possibly 1840's France
c.1850
c.1850
c.1850 cushion cover
VictorianVictorian embroidery tray
:
Victorian embroidered bag-
unknown dateclose-up of central trophy
 
tapestry 1990's
[more details here]
machine tapestry machine tapestry    
Belgium machine-made tapestry, dancers and musicians
   

 

 


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