Sources and image credits: A Gouda tapestry was credited to the wrong maker for centuries

In Wonder Walls, a landscape tapestry more than ten metres long by Jannetje Wouters is on view for a limited time. New research attributes the seventeenth-century work to a woman who signed with a cross.

Sources checked on 12 October 2026.

Sources

https://www.museumgouda.nl/tentoonstelling/wonder-walls-wandtapijten/
https://www.museumgouda.nl/nieuws/wonder-walls-de-verborgen-wereld-achter-wandtapijten/
https://www.museumgouda.nl/plan-je-bezoek/praktische-informatie/

Image credits

The Catharina Gasthuis, home to Museum Gouda. Photo: Gouwenaar / Wikimedia Commons · public domain · Image source

Photo: Gouwenaar / Wikimedia Commons · public domain · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catharina_gasthuis_met_kapel_Oosthaven_Gouda.jpg

Museum Gouda in the historic centre. Photo: Agaath / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image source

Photo: Agaath / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museum_Gouda,_Gouda_750_jaar.jpg