PREFERRED TERM
Tapestry
DEFINITION
- n. From previous forms as in Middle English "tapstery" "tapestrye" "tapistry" among others. It refers to a A textile fabric decorated with designs of ornament or pictorial subjects, painted, embroidered, or woven in colours, used for wall hangings, curtains, covers for seats, to hang from windows or balconies on festive occasions, etc. It is such a decorated fabric, in which a weft containing ornamental designs in coloured wool or silk, gold or silver thread, etc., is worked with bobbins or broaches, and pressed close with a comb, on a warp of hemp or flax stretched in a frame. Often loosely applied to imitative textile fabrics.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Tapisserie
French
Arazzo (tecnica)
Italian
Tapiz
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/608
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