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'''Tapestry''' is a form of [[textile arts|textile art]], [[Weaving|woven]] on a vertical [[loom]]. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length (called the [[warp (weaving)|warp]]) and those parallel to the width (called the [[weft]]); 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 (weaving)|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 colored weft back and forth in its own small pattern area. It is a plain weft-faced weave having weft threads of different colours worked over portions of the warp to form the design. '''Tapestry''' is a form of [[textile arts|textile art]], [[Weaving|woven]] on a vertical [[loom]]. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length (called the [[warp (weaving)|warp]]) and those parallel to the width (called the [[weft]]); 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 (weaving)|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 colored weft back and forth in its own small pattern area. It is a plain weft-faced weave having weft threads of different colours worked over portions of the warp to form the design.
 +==List of famous tapestries==
 +*The [[Trojan War]] tapestry referred to by [[Homer]] in Book III of the [[Iliad]], where [[Iris (mythology)|Iris]] disguises herself as [[Laodice]] and finds [[Helen of Troy|Helen]] "working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and [[Achaeans (Homer)|Achaeans]], that [[Ares]] had made them fight for her sake." If such a tapestry had been made at the time, then it could explain how the battles were remembered in such great detail over the 400 or so years between the siege of Troy and the age of Homer.
 +*The [[Cloth of St Gereon]] – oldest European tapestry still extant.
 +*The [[Sampul tapestry]], woollen wall hanging, 3rd–2nd century BC, Sampul, [[Ürümqi]] [[Xinjiang]] [[Museum]].
 +*[[The Hestia Tapestry]], 6th century, Egypt, [[Dumbarton Oaks]] Collection.
 +*The [[Bayeux Tapestry]] is an embroidered cloth — not an actual tapestry — nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England, likely made in England — not Bayeux — in the 1070s
 +*The [[Apocalypse Tapestry]] is the longest tapestry in the world, and depicts scenes from the [[Book of Revelation]]. It was woven between 1373 and 1382. Originally 140 m (459 ft), the surviving 100m are displayed in the [[Château d'Angers]], in [[Angers]].
 +*The six-part piece ''La Dame à la Licorne'' ([[The Lady and the Unicorn]]), stored in l'Hôtel de Cluny, [[Paris]].
 +*The [[Devonshire Hunting Tapestries]], four Flemish tapestries dating from the mid-fifteenth century depict men and women in fashionable dress of the early fifteenth century hunting in a forest. The tapestries formerly belonged to the [[Duke of Devonshire]] and are now in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].
 +*[[The Hunt of the Unicorn]] is a seven piece tapestry from 1495 to 1505, currently displayed at [[The Cloisters]], [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York.
 +*The tapestries for the [[Sistine Chapel]], designed by [[Raphael]] in 1515–16, for which the [[Raphael Cartoons]], or painted designs, also survive.
 +*The [[Jagiellonian tapestries|Wawel Tapestries]], (mid 16th century) a collection of 134 tapestries at the Wawel Castle in [[Kraków]], Poland displaying various religious, natural, and royal themes. These famous tapestries, created in [[Arras]], were collected by Polish Kings [[Sigismund I the Old]] and [[Sigismund II Augustus]].
 +*The [[Valois Tapestries]] are a cycle of 8 hangings depicting royal festivities in [[France]] in the 1560s and 1570s
 +*The [[New World Tapestry]] is a 267 feet long tapestry which depicts the colonisation of the Americas between 1583 and 1648, displayed at the [[British Empire and Commonwealth Museum]]; this is not (strictly speaking) a tapestry, but is instead [[embroidery]].
 +* The biggest collection of Flanders tapestry is in the Spanish royal collection, there is 8000 metres of historical tapestry from Flanders, as well as Spanish tapestries designed by [[Goya]] and others. There is a special museum in the [[Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso]], and others are displayed in various historic buildings.
 +* [[The Pastoral Amusements]], also known as "Les Amusements Champêtres", a series of 8 Beauvais Tapestries designed by [[Jean Baptiste Oudry]] between 1720 and 1730.
 +* The [[Prestonpans Tapestry]] is a 104 metres long [[embroidery]] which tells the story of [[Bonnie Prince Charlie]] and the [[Battle of Prestonpans]].
 +* Christ in Glory, (1962) for [[Coventry Cathedral]] designed by [[Graham Sutherland]]. Up until the 1990s this was the world's largest vertical tapestry.
 +* The [[Quaker Tapestry]] (1981–1989) is a modern set of [[embroidery]] panels that tell the story of Quakerism from the 17th century to the present day.
 +==See also==
 +*[[Tapestry "Diana of Ephesus" by Perino del Vaga]]
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Tapestry is a form of textile art, woven on a vertical loom. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length (called the warp) and those parallel to the width (called the weft); 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 colored weft back and forth in its own small pattern area. It is a plain weft-faced weave having weft threads of different colours worked over portions of the warp to form the design.

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