Flemish verdure tapestry depicting the undergrowth of a forest with a small house, steps to one side. Border of flowers, foliage and strapwork medallions. Probably woven in an Oudenaarde workshop.

Verdures, or "Forest Work" tapestries were by far the most popular of woven wall hangings in Scotland, judging by the numbers and fragments that have survived. Although they appear to have been woven in most centres, verdures such as these, without marks, are usually ascribed to Oudenaarde, and this is borne out by accounts at Cawdor Castle listing the cost of transporting tapestries from Oudenaarde to Findhorn by sea and thence to Cawdor.

These panels may be survivors of the "Landskip Hangings 8 pieces" bought in London for the palace in 1668.

Text adapted from Margaret Swain, Tapestries and Textiles in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, London, 1988.