. The spell of Flanders; an outline of the history, legends and art of Belgium's famous northern provinces, being the story of a twentieth century pilgrimage in a sixteenth century land just before the outbreak of the great war . with suchrapidity that in 1539 no less than twenty thou-sand persons — including men, women andchildren — were employed as tapestry weaversat Audenaerde and its environs. Among the famous Flemish artists whopainted designs for the tapestry weavers ofAudenaerde may be mentioned Floris, Coxcie,Rubens, David Teniers, Gaspar de Witte, Vic-tor Janssens, Peter Spierinckx, A
. The spell of Flanders; an outline of the history, legends and art of Belgium's famous northern provinces, being the story of a twentieth century pilgrimage in a sixteenth century land just before the outbreak of the great war . with suchrapidity that in 1539 no less than twenty thou-sand persons — including men, women andchildren — were employed as tapestry weaversat Audenaerde and its environs. Among the famous Flemish artists whopainted designs for the tapestry weavers ofAudenaerde may be mentioned Floris, Coxcie,Rubens, David Teniers, Gaspar de Witte, Vic-tor Janssens, Peter Spierinckx, Adolphus deGryeff, and Alexander Van Bredael, while therewere a host of others. Gradually, however, theartisans began to be discontented with theirrate of pay, which the master tapestry makerskept at a low figure, and the advent of the re-ligious wars found them eager to join anymovement of revolt. After the outburst of theiconoclasts and the arrival of the Duke of Alvamany fled to the Dutch provinces and to Eng-land, never to return. This emigration con-tinued well into the seventeenth century, asvarious decrees passed by the magistrates be-tween 1604 and 1621, confiscating the posses-sions of such emigrants, Audenaerde and Margaret of Parma 387 Another cause that contributed to the ruinof the tapestry industry at Audenaerde was theactive effort made by the Kings of France,Louis XIII and Louis XIV, to induce the bestweavers and master-workmen to emigrate toParis. Philippe Bobbins, one of the most cele-brated master-weavers of Audenaerde, was in-vited to come to France in 1622 and was after-wards proclaimed at Beavais to be the Chefde tons les tapitsers du Roy. Many of theweavers who went to Paris and Brussels ontheir own account established ateliers wherethey manufactured what they proclaimed to beveritahles tapis dAudenaerde, and this com-petition still further injured the industry whichsoon afterward disappeared entirely from thecity that gave its name to this t
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