Silk Drapes for the Chapel

The Chapel of Saint Hubert at the Royal Chateau of Amboise.

Cloth of Gold, that fabled textile from the Middle Ages, has a long association with the city of Tours.

In 1495, twenty-five years before the royal camp that became known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold, the silk workers of Tours delivered to the King more than six aunes (nearly 7 metres) of Cloth of Gold embellished with fleurs de lys, for the new chapel constructed at the Chateau of Amboise.

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