pieter van lint was also active as a designer of tapestries. correspondence between the antwerp trader hendrik lenaerts and the brussels weavers jan van leefdael and gerard van der strecken dated 1660 shows that van lint had designed 8 cartoons for a "story of domitian". a tapestry series dated 1639 on the "story of the virgin mary" still preserved in the pottery convent in bruges is believed to have been made after models by pieter van lint.