tapestry
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The Bayeux tapestry also features prominently in the Times, which carries a photograph of King Charles III laughing alongside the French president as they viewed the tapestry on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Macron played an instrumental role over nearly a decade in pushing for the tapestry loan, which is viewed as another step towards healing the rancour of the Brexit years.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
There had been some worries that moving the fragile tapestry could risk causing damage, but French government sources said ahead of the royal preview: "The display conditions at the British Museum are ideal."
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Ms. Cline creates a porous mental tapestry of frayed gaps and vivid imagery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
There were always aromas of tasty dishes, flowers cut from our backyard in vases, doilies that Grandma India crocheted on tables, and squares of tapestry she had made on the walls.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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Conceived as designs for tapestries, they are also, like so many of Matisse’s preparatory studies, self-sufficient artworks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Highlights include the first painting he completed entirely on his own, as well as tapestries designed for the Sistine Chapel.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
The ceiling, outfitted with colorful, cloth tapestries designed to move with the wind, aims to create less friction between indoor and outdoor environments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
Pairing paintings, tapestries and sculptures with songs and sound clips, these museums have become unlikely social-media stars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
Snowy white chaises with chartreuse pillows, jade bedcurtains and saffron drapes, fuchsia walls and garnet tapestries.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The showiest destination of all is table 56, a dome-shaped tapestried booth.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2020
The film academy took the backdrop from the “Fit as a Fiddle” number in “Singin’ in the Rain,” the eerie landscape of “Forbidden Planet,” the tapestried walls of “Marie Antoinette,” the office from “Adam’s Rib.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
Their music echoes among the buttresses of the Hall’s ceiling, and dies in the tapestried dimness beyond our tables where the servants come and go.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2019
A wedding party of Africans and African-Americans tripped through, decked to the nines, some in gleaming white linen and tapestried skull caps.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2015
In a maze of colour and guy-ropes, of tent-pegs and tall spears, of chessplayers and sutlers, of tapestried interiors and of gold plate, Arthur of England had sat down to starve his friend.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Trees vaulted the way tapestrying it with their leaves, between which one caught peeps at the sea, a shimmer of blue through a shimmer of green.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
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