• n. A term borrowed from the French "gobelins" "Manufacture des Gobelins". The term takes its name fro the great tapestry-weaving centres of Europe, Gobelins. The term is generally used to refer to the pictorical tapestry-woven hangings, characterized by their details. Also, in old literature it is found and referred to a tapestry technique.

• Upholstery

• Tapestry

• Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.

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