TAPESTRY

Tapestry

Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom. However, it can also be woven on a floor loom as well. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length and those parallel to the width ; the warp threads are set up under tension on a loom, and the weft thread is passed back and forth across part or all of the warps. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work, unlike cloth weaving where both the warp and the weft threads may be visible. In tapestry weaving, weft yarns are typically discontinuous; the artisan interlaces each coloured weft back and ...

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tapestry

Noun

  1. A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
  2. Anything with variegated or complex details.

Verb



    

  1. To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.
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