tapestry
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Mr. Smith’s protagonist is Mignon Langnas, whose letters and diaries provide a human thread in a notably inhumane tapestry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The exhibition opened on 10 September but has experienced a series of problems with queues and congestion, with some visitors spending longer than their allocated 40-minute slot viewing the tapestry.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Since its creation by nuns in England, the tapestry has lived mostly in Bayeux, a medieval town in northern France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
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
He was sewing Martin the Warrior back in his former position on the corner of the magnificent Redwall tapestry.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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“Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines,” opening Sunday at the Hammer Museum, traces that relentless drive across nearly 150 paintings, drawings, sculptures, garments and tapestries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
They select complementary textual threads from vast data warehouses and weave them together to create tapestries of prose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The facility will include state-of-the-art, climate-controlled storage for the museum’s more than 250,000-object collection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, tapestries and Cold War-era ephemera from the Soviet Union, East Bloc, China and other countries.
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
She would find herself wandering down gloomy halls past faded tapestries, descending endless circular stairs, darting through Courtyards or over bridges, her shouts echoing unanswered.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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
I stopped to watch as two men carried out a tapestried sofa and loaded it into the back of a large delivery truck.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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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