September and October [fragment] from The Twelve Months of the Year

After 1675

After a design by David III Teniers (Flemish, 1638–1685) Woven at the workshop of Gerard Peemans (Flemish, 1637/39–1725) Brussels

Brussels

Wool, silk, and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk; slit and double interlocking tapestry weave with some areas of 2 : 2 plain interlacing of silvered-metal wefts Warp: Count: 10 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of four Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–0.9 mm Weft: Count: varies from 19 to 42 wefts per cm; wool: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.3–0.8 mm; silk: pairs of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm; silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk: silvered-metal strip wrapped in an S-direction on S-ply of two yarns of Z-ply of two slightly Z-twisted silk elements; pairs of yarns of silvered-metal strip wrapped in an S-direction on S-ply of two yarns of Z-ply of two slightly Z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm