This was originally the butler’s pantry. The 500 year old Flemish tapestries were bought by the Booths as a study collection for the Cranbrook Academy of Art. The detail is amazing; especially considering the weavers wove the tapestries from the back using a mirror to see the pattern!
The smaller tapestries are fragments of larger pieces. In medieval times if a home or castle was under siege and the family was about to be separated, they would cut the tapestries apart and divide them among the family.