Located in the heart of Hamburg, near to the St. Michaelis-Church, moreover, the church being properly named, “Michel”, you will find the smallest manufacture of tapestry ever seen. Only on special request and personal invitation or recommendation, the artist, Kristina Meissner, opens the door to the curious visitor. From the outside, nothing shows that behind the doors of a normal apartment house, dating back to the beginning of the last century, an atelier is hiding. And within it, a cosmos of curiosities…

Here you can order hand-painted tapestry, made out of canvas, not paper, as it was done in the 17th and 18th century, like one sees in castles and manors throughout Europe. Especially well known examples of such panels can be found in France and Sweden. The so called “Rococo” or  “Gustavian Style” describes best the general frame of the artwork of the manufacturer, who designs her own interpretation of historic “wallpaper” which the sources inspired.

Hand-painted walltextile (not: wallpaper) or textile hangings (not: paper hangings) have some undisputable advantages to normal tapestry, which is made out of paper:

They are unique – not mass produced. Elegant. Exclusive. Eloquent. They fit to manor-style homes as well as to the modern decorated home. As solitaire over a bed, a board, a table, as supraporta crowning a door, or as a set of numerous panels decorating a whole room – such as those found in a castle cabinet. The greatest thing about it is: If you want to change the look of a room or need to move elsewhere, you don’t lose the wall decoration! Being made out of canvas, you simply remove the panel off the wall, roll it up – and glue it to the next wall (or hand it – rolled as it is – down to the next generation ).