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The preacher Bernadarino of Siena, who was particularly attentive to the changes afoot, went so far as to link male ornament and finery to the growing practice of sodomy, since pretty young men would attract unwanted attention from their elders. Women's insatiable desire for fine things, he claimed, also promoted homosexuality because it led to rapid escalation in the cost of dowries, and that, in turn, delayed weddings. In their sexual frustration, young unmarried men had begun to turn to each other to satisfy their lusts.

— Legal Plunder by Daniel Lord Smail (Page 18 - 19)

This is a practical book. It sticks to the facts. It is based, not on other books, but on tapestries I have seen and know. It wastes little space on unimportant tapestries, or on tapestries that have ceased to exist.

I dedicate the book "to France, the mother of tapestries" in recognition of the fact that Perfected Tapestries are a French art based on French literature and painting, and developed at Arras and Paris in the fourteenth century. All great Gothic tapestries are French Gothic, whether woven in Northern France or in the French Netherlands.

— The Practical Book of Tapestries by George Leland Hunter (Page 1)