Editing Tapestry (section)

===Patrons===
[[File:Tapisserie de l'apocalypse.jpg|thumb|The ''[[Apocalypse Tapestry]]'' in the [[Château d'Angers]], in [[Angers]], [[France]]]]
The main weaving centres were ruled by the French and [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundian]] branches of the [[House of Valois]], who were extremely important patrons in the [[Late Medieval]] period.  This began with the four sons of [[John II of France]] (d. 1362), whose inventories reveal they owned hundreds of tapestries between them.  Almost the only clear survival from these collections, and the most famous tapestry from the 14th century, is the huge ''[[Apocalypse Tapestry]]'', a very large set made for [[Louis I, Duke of Anjou]] in Paris between 1377 and 1382.<ref>Campbell and Ainsworth, 14–17</ref>

Another of the brothers, [[Philip the Bold]], [[Duke of Burgundy]] (d. 1404) was probably an even more extravagant spender, and presented many tapestries to other rulers around Europe.  Several of the tapestry-weaving centres were in his territories, and his gifts can be seen as a rather successful attempt to spread the taste for large Flemish tapestries to other courts, as well as being part of his attempt to promote the status of his duchy.  Apart from Burgundy and France, tapestries were given to several of the English [[Plantagenet dynasty|Plantagenets]], and the rulers of  Austria, Prussia, Aragon, Milan, and at his specific request, to the Ottoman [[Sultan Bazajet I]] (as part of a ransom deal for the duke's son).  None of the tapestries Philip commissioned appear to survive.<ref>Campbell and Ainsworth, 15–17</ref>  Philip's taste for tapestries was to continue very strongly in his descendants, including the Spanish Habsburgs.