This is a practical book. It sticks to the facts. It is based, not on other books, but on tapestries I have seen and know. It wastes little space on unimportant tapestries, or on tapestries that have ceased to exist.

I dedicate the book "to France, the mother of tapestries" in recognition of the fact that Perfected Tapestries are a French art based on French literature and painting, and developed at Arras and Paris in the fourteenth century. All great Gothic tapestries are French Gothic, whether woven in Northern France or in the French Netherlands.

— The Practical Book of Tapestries by George Leland Hunter