tapestry
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Initially declared a success with "no visible alteration" to the 70-metre-long tapestry following its arrival, France last week said two broken threads were spotted during a full condition check.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The tapestry has been inspiring artists since the Middle Ages.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The French leader met King Charles at the museum on Wednesday, ahead of the medieval tapestry going on public display next week.
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 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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“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
“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
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
Alan stares at the ghostly squares left behind by the rich tapestries on the walls.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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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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