Scalamandré Woven Tapestry Border Remnant | Tobacco Amber Sage | 7"w × 104"l

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…. Acquired Paris Remnant Sale, House of Scalamandré, Winter 2026
There are things one goes to Paris in late winter … Read more …. Acquired Paris Remnant Sale, House of Scalamandré, Winter 2026
There are things one goes to Paris in late winter specifically to find.
Not the Paris of August tourists and overpriced café terraces. The OTHER Paris — grey-skied, coat-collared, emptied of everyone except the French themselves and the handful of particular people who know that January and February are when the city reveals what it actually is. The soldes. The remnant sales. The quiet rooms in legendary maisons where bolts of fabric that dressed the walls of châteaux and the interiors of grand hotels are offered up at prices that make your hands tremble slightly as you unroll them.
It was at one such event — a remnant sale at The House of Scalamandré in Paris — that this extraordinary piece made its way home to Hemlock House in the Vermont hills, wrapped in tissue, mailed across the Atlantic, and worth every EURO of the postage.

WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT is a museum-quality cotton and wool tapestry border remnant of the highest order. The ground is a deep, aged slate-sage — that particular grey-green that only old European looms seem to produce, the color of a formal garden in November. Against it, a continuous procession of acanthus scroll medallions unfurls in warm tobacco, burnt amber, and old gold, each medallion enclosing a five-petaled rosette in cream and chestnut. The border edges are finished in a classic leaf-and-dart frieze in the same warm ochre palette. The whole thing moves like architecture — stately, intentional, and DEEPLY beautiful.
The colorway is the palette of a Flemish still life: pomegranate gold, tobacco, sage, warm ivory, and the particular brown that old masters reserved for shadows. It photographs like a dream and lives even better in person.

A NOTE ON THE HOUSE OF SCALAMANDRÉ:
Founded in 1929, Scalamandré grew from a single loom into one of the most storied textile dynasties in the world — the house responsible for reproducing historic textile documents for the White House, the United States Capitol, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Hearst Castle. For nearly a century, the name has meant one thing to every serious decorator, designer, and collector: the absolute standard. To acquire a Scalamandré remnant directly from a Paris house sale is to hold a piece of living textile history in your hands.

THE POSSIBILITIES are as endless as your imagination — and this piece will not wait quietly. Dress the leading edge of custom drapery panels in a library or dining room. Frame a four-poster bed as a canopy border. Apply it to upholstered cornices. Use it as a table runner beneath brass candlesticks and winter fruit — as you can see in the photographs, that composition essentially arranges itself. Mount it on linen and frame it as a work of decorative art. Finish the hem of a velvet tablecloth. Band a bench, border a headboard, finish a window seat in something that will outlast everything around it.
A piece this beautiful does not wait to be useful. It tells you what it wants to become.

THE DETAILS:

Maker: House of Scalamandré, Paris
Acquired: Paris Remnant Sale, Winter 2025
Composition: Cotton and wool tapestry weave
Dimensions: 7" wide × 104" long (approximately 8.75 feet), single continuous length
Colorway: Tobacco, burnt amber, old gold, slate-sage, warm cream
Condition: Excellent. No fading. No fraying at finished edges. Minor loose thread at one cut end, consistent with remnant cutting.
Origin: Hemlock House, Montgomery, Vermont — via Paris

Ships carefully wrapped from the Vermont hills.
Questions welcomed. This one will not last.
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