tapestry

Probably designed and made soon after 1066 at Canterbury, it is not a true tapestry, but an embroidered narrative, and the oldest and most complete one we have.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Depicting the 1066 Battle of Hastings and the invasion by William the Conqueror's Norman army, the tapestry has shadowy origins.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

The tapestry has been inspiring artists since the Middle Ages.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

In what is believed to be its first time travelling outside France, the tapestry depicting 627 figures and more than 700 animals has been laid flat in a raised glass cabinet.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

There’s a small tapestry that hangs on the wall of the front room and that’s it.

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani

“Diana” precedes an extraordinary gathering of elaborate furniture, once in Versailles; tapestries; and improbably opulent 18th-century French silver—plus a wealth of medieval ivories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

“When you walk through, you won’t see boxes. You’ll see vases, tapestries, ceramics and more.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 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

Some jackets and skirts featured gold fabric and tapestries.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

He led them the long way around to the Italian wing, through the main hall with its tapestries and suits of armor in glass cases.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

It was always cold in the tower, for all the carpets and the tapestried hangings and the rich furred clothing and the broad marble fireplaces they had.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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