European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Adding spice to life a bit of the past is alive and Well m Mustard shop we founded in 1790, is doing a thriving business at Grent Enmark 3. Mustard is still made on inc premises just one kind and it s Sharp no Pieser Alives added it is dipped with a big wooden scoop irom a barrel into whatever size Mustard pol the customer orders. Customers come in with great regularity locals and tourists alike to buy the Mustard or the homemade relishes of a herbs and spices thai Are kept in Row upon Row of Glass and Ceramic jars. There is also a selection of fancy oils extracts such As Orange Blossom Wales and an array of Pepper Mills customers have Lime to Stop and Chat too and to Tell visitors about the local Mustard until about 30 years ago he still Well round town on foot with two big Mustard barrels balanced on a shoulder Yoke Selling from door to door. The people of Ghant like their Mustard and now that the Mustard Man is no More this shop is where they find in about 80 different spices Are available Tor Kitchen not medicinal us and they Are sold ground or whole Mustard la made fresh Al least two or three times a week sometimes daily when the demand u great ii is sold Only in this shop so we can control the freshness said the proprietor who declined to give his name the shop name is what s important he said How Long the Mustard keeps depends on storage temperature. You can keep it two or three weeks at Home in the refrigerator he said la s still Good Lor cooking after that but not for table tha shop also Sells Mustard jars in several sizes bearing its own distinctive trademark a half Moon with the shop Namo in ancient gothic i Bolcis in 1790. Belgium was under austrian Rule thai s Why the Label is o1 austrian design said Itie proprietor the we was added during the French occupy Hon of tha address is of later Vintage and in More modern Type ii dates Back to 1862 when the shop moved to its present location. Its furnishings Are of that period Vve Tioren Leijon Verhenl is the oldest shop continuously in business in Ghent. Law Dominique denote la Tea muttered into a pot. Nude Naandre tapestry town t us Awn How City toll i o the South of Ghent is the Small Lown Ouden Aarde known for its blown Beer and tapestries. It is Well Worth a Visil for its town Hall cloth Hall and churches and monasteries set picturesquely at the foot of the flemish ardennes. A stroll around the huge Market Square now a parking lot and the surrounding streets rewards the visitor with views of a variety of facades gothic flemish Renaissance baroque Gables Rococo Neo classic. Stop at one of the sidewalk cafes for a local Beer brewed by Liefman or roman. The Lown can be a Short pause in a drive through the Countryside but Don l leave without a look Al its tapestries Ouden Aarde was a leading producer of tapestries men from Tho Lown were summoned to Paris by King Henry Ivlo establish what became the most famous of tapestry firms goblins. Ouden Aarde was one of the first flemish towns known to have a tapestry Industry. In was believed to have begun at the end of the 14lh or beginning of the 15th Century. The Industry had ils ups and Downs declining As a result of religious quarrels about 1550, reviving for a Short period in the next Century and ending in 1772 when the last holdout Jan Baptist Brandt closed his shop. The popularity of tapestries died out when fashion changed and leather and other materials were being used As Wall coverings. Tapestries had originally been used to conceal and decorate Bare Walls and to keep out drafts. Sometimes they adorned streets for festivals 01 to Welcome visiting vips generals even look tapestries Wilh them on campaigns to hang in their tents. The weaving process is somewhat life Ordinary weaving and somewhat like embroidery the Weaver can put any Given color in any Given place unlike Oriental carpets Lapel by is not knotted. At the beginning Ouden Aarde weavers did not use Many colors their tapestries Are almost always in hubs of Green yellow Brown and Pale Blue in the 14th Century Only two dozen colors were known but by the 18th Century weavers had a Choice irom As Many As 1,800 shades. Tapestries Are divided into two main groups decorative and pictorial. Ouden Aarde specialized in decorative verdure Green tapestries Wilh Flower Iree and other nature life Mol its. Most of Ouden Aarde s tapestries Ware exported a Lew can be seen at the Small museum in the town Hal basemen i in the cloth Hall and in the drawing room of the Nolde Dame Hospital in the St. Walburga Church Hooks Are still visible where five Large tapestries once Hung Between the pillars of the Nave. For into Malion about opening hours Stop by the tourism office in the town Hall Lei. 055-311491, Extension 6. Ii is open week Days 6 15 . To noon and 1 15 to 5 30 . On weekends it is open 10a,m,-noon and 2-5 . . The stars and stripes Page 15
