Best Periods and Their Dates
| Earliest Tapestry Looms | Prehistoric |
| European Early Attempts | Twelfth To Fourteenth Centuries |
| Arras and Burgundian Tapestry | Early Fifteenth Century |
| Gothic Perfection, Flanders | About Fifteen Hundred |
| Gothic Perfection, France | About Fifteen Hundred |
| Italian Factories | Fifteenth Century |
| Raphael Cartoons in Flanders | 1515-1519 |
| Renaissance Perfection, Flanders | 1515 To Second Half of Century |
| Brussels Mark | 1528 |
| Flemish Decadence | End of Sixteenth Century |
| French Rise | End of Sixteenth Century |
| French Organisation | 1597, Reign of Henri IV |
| English Supremacy, Mortlake Established | 1619 |
| Establishment of Gobelins | 1662, Reign of Louis XIV |
| Best Heroic Period of Gobelins | Last Half of Seventeenth Century |
| Best Decorative Period of Gobelins | Middle of Eighteenth Century |
| Decadence of Gobelins | End of Eighteenth Century |
| Recent Times, England, Wm. Morris | End of Nineteenth Century |
| Recent Times, America | End of Nineteenth Century |
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