famous tapestry Tap elry the tapestries originated in the work of a former dyer named Gobel ln who in the fourteenth century came from reims helms to paris the family having discovered a marvelous scarlet dye which attracted great attention in the sixteenth century to the manufacture of dyes was added the manufacture of tapestry which founded the fortune of the family some of the family were granted titles of nobility and some became leading statesmen of france in the reign of louis X XIV the government took over the tapestry manufactures and they remain a state activity