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Madame de Maintenon Armoirie de Madame de Maintenon  MADAME DE MAINTENON  Coat of Arms Maintenon Château de Maintenon
Armoirie de l'école de St. Cyr SAINT CYR STITCH Armoirie de l'école de Saint Cyr
PETIT Armoirie de Tapisserrie de France POINT
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Madam the Marquise de Maintenon & the Petit point from St. Cyr school on hand painted canvas

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The Petit Point as Educational Pattern

Out Coat of arms Saint Cyr the school Basketweave or Petit Point the relative circle and until Madame de MAINTENON's time, nobody had worried about teatching needlepoint tapestry no more yet the basketweave stitch. The Petit Point, named in US Basketweave, is a small stitch, a diagonal stitch, used for needlepoint: synonym, but not same, of tent stitch; often says Petit Point, pronunciation: "petee poynt".
That stitch has insurpassable qualities as robustness and perfect finishing Louis XVth arm chair to the castle of Maintenon aspect. It is why this Saint Cyr Petit Point was often used for needlepoint seat covering.
It is of her desire to give a fine education to the noble but orphan girls that in her second installation of Louis the Holy education's house to Saint-Cyr village, that will be teatched the first "Petit Point lesson".
Since, this Petit Point kepts registered in its name the place of its birth at "Saint Cyr" (a today small town close from Versailles to the south-west of Paris).

Left hand side an armchair that we can see to the Maintenon castel


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