![]() ![]() In late medieval Europe tapestry was the grandest and most expensive medium for figurative images in two dimensions, and despite the rapid rise in importance of painting it retained this position in the eyes of many Renaissance patrons until at least the end of the 16th century, if not beyond. ![]() Tapestry Room from Croome Court, moved to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hung with made to measure 18th-century Gobelins tapestries, also covering the chairs. The weft threads are usually wool or cotton but may include silk, gold, silver, or other alternatives. Most weavers use a natural warp thread, such as wool, linen, or cotton. Some periods made smaller pieces, often long and narrow and used as borders for other textiles. Tapestry is relatively fragile, and difficult to make, so most historical pieces are intended to hang vertically on a wall (or sometimes in tents), or sometimes horizontally over a piece of furniture such as a table or bed. Normally it is used to create images rather than patterns. ![]() Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Weaving a small tapestry on a high-warp loom, 2022, New Zealand One of the tapestries in the series The Hunt of the Unicorn: The Unicorn is Found, circa 1495–1505, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City For other uses, see Tapestry (disambiguation). ![]()
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