A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like
A heavy, often hand-woven, ribbed fabric, featuring an elaborate design depicting a historical or current pictorial display The weft-faced fabric design is made by using colored filling yarns, only in areas where needed, that are worked back and forth over spun warp yarns, which are visible on the back End-uses include wall hangings and upholstery
is design by weaving the fabric itself rather than by stitching designs onto an openweave canvas The origins go back well over a thousand years, coming to Europe via the Middle East The great age of tapestry was in the 1600s and 1700s, especially in France Hand looms gave way to power looms in the nineteenth century Many of the designs from that period have retained their popularity for needlepoint kits The term Tapestry is now often used to refer to Needlepoint
Hand woven fabric of great value with technical properties and decorative and figurative style different from other textiles Tapestries are made on specialized large looms The tapestry makers copied designs painted on paper or canvas called cartoons that where supplied by painters
a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery something that is felt to resemble a tapestry in its complexity; "the tapestry of European history
You can refer to something as a tapestry when it is made up of many varied types of people or things. Hedgerows and meadows are thick with a tapestry of wild flowers. Heavy, reversible, patterned or figured hand-woven textile, usually in the form of a hanging or upholstery fabric. Tapestries are usually designed as single panels or as sets of panels related by subject and style and intended to be hung together. The earliest known tapestries were made from linen by the ancient Egyptians. Tapestry weaving was well established in Peru by the 6th century, and outstanding silk tapestries were made in China beginning in the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907). In western Europe, tapestry making flourished from the 13th century. Among the greatest European tapestries are the 15th-century Lady with the Unicorn set and the 16th-century Acts of the Apostles set, based on cartoons by Raphael. Tapestry art was revitalized in late-19th-century Britain with the Arts and Crafts Movement. In the 20th century, abstract tapestries were produced at the Bauhaus, and many painters, including Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, allowed their paintings to provide the basis for tapestry art
A wall hanging, furniture, covering, etc for which a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial
A jacquard woven fabric in cotton, wool, or man-made fibers The design is woven in by means of colored filling yarns On the back, shaded stripes identify this fabric
a closely woven figured fabric with a compound structure in which a pattern is developed by the use of coloured yarns in the warp or in the weft or both A fine binder warp and weft may be incorporated The fabric is woven on jacquard looms and is normally used for upholstery