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- Dictionarytap·es·try/ˈtapəstrē/
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- 1. a piece of thick textile fabric with pictures or designs formed by weaving colored weft threads or by embroidering on canvas, used as a wall hanging or furniture covering: "paneled walls hung with old tapestries"
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a piece of cloth with a pattern or picture that is created by sewing or weaving different coloured threads onto a special type of strong cloth: None of the artists had designed tapestries before. There were rich vases as tall as a man and tapestries hung from the rough stone. helovi/E+/GettyImages. something that is made of many different parts:
The meaning of TAPESTRY is a heavy handwoven reversible textile used for hangings, curtains, and upholstery and characterized by complicated pictorial designs. How to use tapestry in a sentence.
Tapestry definition: a fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings, etc.. See examples of TAPESTRY used in a sentence.
A tapestry is a large piece of heavy cloth with a picture sewn on it using coloured threads.
TAPESTRY meaning: 1. a piece of cloth with a pattern or picture that is created by sewing or weaving different…. Learn more.
A tapestry is a picture woven into cloth. It's a decorative rug you hang on the wall, with detailed images or designs on it. Some tapestries, like the famous Unicorn Tapestries, tell stories with their pictures.
tapestry, woven decorative fabric, the design of which is built up in the course of weaving. Broadly, the name has been used for almost any heavy material, handwoven, machine woven, or even embroidered, used to cover furniture, walls, or floors or for the decoration of clothing.
1. (Art Terms) a heavy ornamental fabric, often in the form of a picture, used for wall hangings, furnishings, etc, and made by weaving coloured threads into a fixed warp. 2. (Knitting & Sewing) another word for needlepoint. 3. a colourful and complicated situation: the rich tapestry of London life.
TAPESTRY definition: a picture or pattern created by sewing different coloured threads onto heavy cloth. Learn more.
tapestry. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Household tap‧es‧try /ˈtæpəstri/ noun (plural tapestries) [ countable, uncountable] 1 a large piece of heavy cloth on which coloured threads are woven to produce a picture, pattern etc a colourful tapestry depicting a hunting scene 2 something that is made up of ...
