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went into Germany and France and Flanders & established branches of their orders. The earliest examples left to us of this transplanted industry are products of monasteries in the Valley of the Rhine dating from the eleventh century, remnants of three sets in Halberstadt Cathedral. In another three hundred years, however, the center of the art had shifted to France and Flanders. In Paris and in unclear and somewhat later, the neighboring city of Tournay great guild of weavers were kept busy producing huge hangings, storied with the life of Christ or of his Virgin Mother, with episodes of the great romances, or from the tradition of history or with scenes from contemporary life--This is the second great period of blooming in the art. From that day to this the production of tapestries in Europe has been uninterrupted. But the art maintained its high level of artistic greatness for only about two