Young Curly Blonde Girl Wearing A White Necklace On The Rattan Armchair With A Red Velvet Fabric

King Richard II of England directed in his will that his body should be clothed in velveto in 1399.
The earliest sources of European artistic velvets were Lucca, Genoa, Florence and Venice, which continued to send out rich velvet textures. Somewhat later the art was taken up by Flemish weavers, and in the sixteenth century Bruges attained a reputation for velvets that were not inferior to those of the great Italian cities.