tapestryn.

/ˈtapɪstri/

Forms: Middle English tapstery, Middle English–1500s tapestrye, Middle English–1700s tapistry, 1500s tapstry, tapstrye, tappistre, 1500s–1600s tapestre, tapistre, tapstrie, 1500s– tapestry.

Etymology: Corruption of tapesry, tapesserie, tapisry, or other form of tapissery n. The t may have developed phonetically between s and r , or may have been aided by words in -istry : compare tapester n. (In Milton and Dryden a disyllable.)

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.; especially, 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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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [noun] > tapestry

tapissery1426

tapestry1434

tapestry-work1434

tapisser-work1459

tapester-work1472

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun]

tapeta900

pallc1275

tapestry1434

hanging1485

baize1862

dhurrie1880

tile1960

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > patchwork > wool

worsted worka1741

tapestry1835

Berlin work1854

crewel-work1863

wool-work1871

1434 [implied in: 1434 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 43 Lectum meum de tapstriwerke cum leonibus et pelicano. (at tapestry-work n.)].

1467 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 387 My mastyr bowte of Skukborow of Cornelle, xij. peces of curse tapstery.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. vi. 120 Prowd tapystry, and mekle precius ware.

1545 Rates Custome House sig. cvij Tapistry wyth sylke the ell xx.s.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iii/1 Tapstrye, tapetum.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie T 51 Tapestrie, or hanginges, in which are wrought pictures of diuerse collours.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 104 In the Deske That's couer'd o're with Turkish Tapistrie .

1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 65 The streittis war all hung with tapestrie.

1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple xlv I care not though the cloth of state should be Not of rich arras, but mean tapestrie.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxvii. 222 To be struck as mute and motionless as a Parlament of Tapstrie in the Hangings.

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 53 Rich Tap'stry spread the Streets, and Flowr's the Pots adorn.

1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. iii. 70 Arras was famous for tapestries, which still retain the name of that place.

1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 68/1 Bayeux Tapestry, a web or roll of linen cloth or canvass, preserved at Bayeux in Normandy, upon which a continuous representation of the events connected with the invasion and conquest of England..is worked in woollen thread of different colours.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1207/2 In Painting, tapestry is applied to a representation of a subject in wool or silk..worked on a woven ground of hemp or flax.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 Apr. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) iii. 162 Gobelin tapestry..brilliant as pictures.

b. transferred and figurative.

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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C1^v Nature neuer set forth the earth in so rich tapistry, as diuers Poets haue done.

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §175 184 A bridge, whose chiefest tapestry is Ivy.

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. vi. iv. 179 Squares covered with Green Herbs, compleat the tapestry, that odorns the Ground.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. x. 23/1 Looking at the fair tapestry of human Life.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 405 The rich tapestry of the jungles.

1875 J. R. Lowell Under Old Elm ii. iii Present and Past..inseparably wrought Into the seamless tapestry of thought.

c. Now frequently applied to (pieces of) canvas embroidery executed typically with wool in tent stitch.

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1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 473/2 Tapestry worked by the needle..differs but slightly from Embroidery. The stitches are made to lie close together, so that no portion of the foundation is visible.

1955 Stitchcraft Mar. 9 The design [for a picture] is worked in tent-stitch by the counted thread..; the chart includes instructions for tent-stitch and hints on stretching tapestry.

1971 Harrods Magical Christmas 9 Tapestry Cushion Pack of tramme canvas, wools and needle.

1971 Harrods Magical Christmas 9 If desired, we will stretch and mount the finished tapestry on velvet.

1976 P. Clabburn Needleworker's Dict. 263/3 Nowadays in Britain, any piece of canvas work, large or small, is called tapestry work, which is a misnomer, while America, although not falling into that particular trap, calls canvas work needlepoint, which is also confusing as that word should apply to lace made with a needle.

2. Short for tapestry-carpet n., tapestry needle n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > needle

tambour-needle1798

tapestry1879

tambour hook1880

tapestry needle1888

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > carpet with woven pattern

tapestry-carpet1858

tapestry1879

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 390/1 In the Brussels the coloured wools make up the bulk of the carpet, while in the ‘tapestry’ the wool..is..all on the surface.

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 88/1 Needle Case... Contains—..Crewel..Tapestry..Bodkin.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 94 Tapestry, a needle which has a blunt point and large eye, used for embroidery with wool.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. See also tapestry-work n.

tapestry artist n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > [noun] > making tapestry > one who

tapestry-maker1611

tapestry-worker1727

tapestry-man1728

tapestry artist1908

1908 Times, Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 286/3 Designs prepared by a tapestry artist from bird's-eye views specially drawn by William Van de Velde the Elder.

tapestry covering n.

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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tapestry couerynge, instratum.

tapestry hall n.

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1637 J. Milton Comus 12 Honest offer'd courtesie, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoakie rafters, then in tapstrie halls, And courts of Princes.

tapestry-hanging n.

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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tapestrye hangynges for noble mens houses.

1700 W. Congreve Way of World ii. i. 29 Like Solomon at the dividing of the Child in an old Tapestry-hanging.

tapestry-maker n.

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tapestry-maker1611

tapestry-worker1727

tapestry-man1728

tapestry artist1908

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tapissier, a Tapistrie-maker.

tapestry-making n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > [noun] > making tapestry

tapestry-making1870

1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. cxi From Egypt through Western Asia the art of tapestry-making found its way to Europe.

tapestry-man n.

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tapestry-maker1611

tapestry-worker1727

tapestry-man1728

tapestry artist1908

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Tapestry The Design or Painting the Tapistry-man is to follow, is placed underneath the Warp.

tapestry room n.

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1817 M. Edgeworth Harrington & Ormond I. xviii. 496 Mr. Montenero..asked, in particular, about a tapestry room,—a picture of Sir Josseline.

1977 ‘R. Player’ Month of Mangled Models vi. 105 The casements of the Tapestry Room were wide span, and the Camelot curtains had been pulled back.

tapestry table-cover n.

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1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 70 A rugged tapestry table-cover.

tapestry wool n.

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1880 L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery i. 4 Tapestry Wool is more than twice the thickness of crewel... Tapestry wool is not yet made in all shades.

1960 G. Lewis Handbk. Crafts 36 The most usual wool for this work is that with a slight twist to it called ‘tapestry’ wool, but other kinds may be used according to the mesh of the canvas.

tapestry-covered adj.

tapestry-like adj.

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1884 J. Tait Mind in Matter 73 Tapestry-like designs.

C2.

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tapestry beetle n. a dermestid beetle, Attagenus piceus, the larva of which is destructive to tapestry, woollens, etc.

tapestry-carpet n. a carpet resembling Brussels, but in which the warp-yarn forming the pile is coloured so as to produce the pattern when woven.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > carpet with woven pattern

tapestry-carpet1858

tapestry1879

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tapestry-carpets, the name generally given to a..two-ply or ingrain carpet, the warp or weft being printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth.

tapestry-cloth n. a piece of tapestry; spec. a corded linen prepared for ‘tapestry-painting’ ( Cent. Dict.).

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1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 656/2 Long and large tapistrie clothes.

tapestry-moth n. a species of clothes-moth, as Tinea tapetzella; cf. carpet-moth n. at carpet n. Compounds 1e.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > clothes-moth

mothOE

moch1637

clothes-moth1753

tapestry-moth1815

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > clothes-moth > trichophaga tapetzella

tapestry-moth1815

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. viii. 233 T[inea] tapetzella, or the tapestry moth, not uncommon in our houses, is most injurious to the lining of carriages.

tapestry needle n. a blunt needle with a large eye used in tapestry-making and canvas embroidery.

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tambour-needle1798

tapestry1879

tambour hook1880

tapestry needle1888

1888–9 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 64/2 The Household Needle Case contains darners, glovers, square-carpet, yarn, chenille, tapestry,..and crewel needles.

1967 E. Lemarchand Death of Old Girl xvii. 196 Tim Pollard watched her..as she plied a tapestry needle.

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tapestry-painting n. painting on linen in imitation of tapestry; material thus prepared.

tapestry-stitch n. = Gobelin n. stitch; also applied to the cross- and tent-stitch work on fine canvas (tapisserie au petit point).

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tapestry-weaver n. one who weaves tapestry; also, a species of spider.

tapestry-weaving n. the weaving of tapestry; the method of weaving by bobbin and comb, used in making tapestry, as distinct from weaving in a loom with a shuttle.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > tapestry weaving

tapestry-weaving1796

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 345 The Flemings formerly engrossed tapestry-weaving to themselves.

1889 A. S. Cole Cantor Lect., Egyptian Tapestry i. 8 The process [anciently] employed is the same as that which was used by the great Flemish weavers..for making their splendid war tapestries, and is now commonly known as the tapestry weaving or Gobelins process.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	tapestry
释义	tapestryn. /ˈtapɪstri/ Forms: Middle English tapstery, Middle English–1500s tapestrye, Middle English–1700s tapistry, 1500s tapstry, tapstrye, tappistre, 1500s–1600s tapestre, tapistre, tapstrie, 1500s– tapestry. Etymology: Corruption of tapesry, tapesserie, tapisry, or other form of tapissery n. The t may have developed phonetically between s and r , or may have been aided by words in -istry : compare tapester n. (In Milton and Dryden a disyllable.) 1. 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.; especially, 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. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [noun] > tapestry tapissery1426 tapestry1434 tapestry-work1434 tapisser-work1459 tapester-work1472 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] tapeta900 pallc1275 tapestry1434 hanging1485 baize1862 dhurrie1880 tile1960 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > patchwork > wool worsted worka1741 tapestry1835 Berlin work1854 crewel-work1863 wool-work1871 1434 [implied in: 1434 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 43 Lectum meum de tapstriwerke cum leonibus et pelicano. (at tapestry-work n.)]. 1467 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 387 My mastyr bowte of Skukborow of Cornelle, xij. peces of curse tapstery. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. vi. 120 Prowd tapystry, and mekle precius ware. 1545 Rates Custome House sig. cvij Tapistry wyth sylke the ell xx.s. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iii/1 Tapstrye, tapetum. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie T 51 Tapestrie, or hanginges, in which are wrought pictures of diuerse collours. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 104 In the Deske That's couer'd o're with Turkish Tapistrie . View more context for this quotation 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 65 The streittis war all hung with tapestrie. 1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple xlv I care not though the cloth of state should be Not of rich arras, but mean tapestrie. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxvii. 222 To be struck as mute and motionless as a Parlament of Tapstrie in the Hangings. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 53 Rich Tap'stry spread the Streets, and Flowr's the Pots adorn. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. iii. 70 Arras was famous for tapestries, which still retain the name of that place. 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 68/1 Bayeux Tapestry, a web or roll of linen cloth or canvass, preserved at Bayeux in Normandy, upon which a continuous representation of the events connected with the invasion and conquest of England..is worked in woollen thread of different colours. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1207/2 In Painting, tapestry is applied to a representation of a subject in wool or silk..worked on a woven ground of hemp or flax. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 Apr. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) iii. 162 Gobelin tapestry..brilliant as pictures. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C1^v Nature neuer set forth the earth in so rich tapistry, as diuers Poets haue done. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §175 184 A bridge, whose chiefest tapestry is Ivy. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. vi. iv. 179 Squares covered with Green Herbs, compleat the tapestry, that odorns the Ground. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. x. 23/1 Looking at the fair tapestry of human Life. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 405 The rich tapestry of the jungles. 1875 J. R. Lowell Under Old Elm ii. iii Present and Past..inseparably wrought Into the seamless tapestry of thought. c. Now frequently applied to (pieces of) canvas embroidery executed typically with wool in tent stitch. ΚΠ 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 473/2 Tapestry worked by the needle..differs but slightly from Embroidery. The stitches are made to lie close together, so that no portion of the foundation is visible. 1955 Stitchcraft Mar. 9 The design [for a picture] is worked in tent-stitch by the counted thread..; the chart includes instructions for tent-stitch and hints on stretching tapestry. 1971 Harrods Magical Christmas 9 Tapestry Cushion Pack of tramme canvas, wools and needle. 1971 Harrods Magical Christmas 9 If desired, we will stretch and mount the finished tapestry on velvet. 1976 P. Clabburn Needleworker's Dict. 263/3 Nowadays in Britain, any piece of canvas work, large or small, is called tapestry work, which is a misnomer, while America, although not falling into that particular trap, calls canvas work needlepoint, which is also confusing as that word should apply to lace made with a needle. 2. Short for tapestry-carpet n., tapestry needle n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > needle tambour-needle1798 tapestry1879 tambour hook1880 tapestry needle1888 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > carpet with woven pattern tapestry-carpet1858 tapestry1879 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 390/1 In the Brussels the coloured wools make up the bulk of the carpet, while in the ‘tapestry’ the wool..is..all on the surface. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 88/1 Needle Case... Contains—..Crewel..Tapestry..Bodkin. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 94 Tapestry, a needle which has a blunt point and large eye, used for embroidery with wool. Compounds C1. General attributive. See also tapestry-work n. a. tapestry artist n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > [noun] > making tapestry > one who tapestry-maker1611 tapestry-worker1727 tapestry-man1728 tapestry artist1908 1908 Times, Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 286/3 Designs prepared by a tapestry artist from bird's-eye views specially drawn by William Van de Velde the Elder. tapestry covering n. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tapestry couerynge, instratum. tapestry hall n. ΚΠ 1637 J. Milton Comus 12 Honest offer'd courtesie, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoakie rafters, then in tapstrie halls, And courts of Princes. tapestry-hanging n. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tapestrye hangynges for noble mens houses. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World ii. i. 29 Like Solomon at the dividing of the Child in an old Tapestry-hanging. tapestry-maker n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > [noun] > making tapestry > one who tapestry-maker1611 tapestry-worker1727 tapestry-man1728 tapestry artist1908 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tapissier, a Tapistrie-maker. tapestry-making n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > [noun] > making tapestry tapestry-making1870 1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. cxi From Egypt through Western Asia the art of tapestry-making found its way to Europe. tapestry-man n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > [noun] > making tapestry > one who tapestry-maker1611 tapestry-worker1727 tapestry-man1728 tapestry artist1908 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Tapestry The Design or Painting the Tapistry-man is to follow, is placed underneath the Warp. tapestry room n. ΚΠ 1817 M. Edgeworth Harrington & Ormond I. xviii. 496 Mr. Montenero..asked, in particular, about a tapestry room,—a picture of Sir Josseline. 1977 ‘R. Player’ Month of Mangled Models vi. 105 The casements of the Tapestry Room were wide span, and the Camelot curtains had been pulled back. tapestry table-cover n. ΚΠ 1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 70 A rugged tapestry table-cover. tapestry wool n. ΚΠ 1880 L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery i. 4 Tapestry Wool is more than twice the thickness of crewel... Tapestry wool is not yet made in all shades. 1960 G. Lewis Handbk. Crafts 36 The most usual wool for this work is that with a slight twist to it called ‘tapestry’ wool, but other kinds may be used according to the mesh of the canvas. b. tapestry-covered adj. tapestry-like adj. ΚΠ 1884 J. Tait Mind in Matter 73 Tapestry-like designs. C2. Categories » tapestry beetle n. a dermestid beetle, Attagenus piceus, the larva of which is destructive to tapestry, woollens, etc. tapestry-carpet n. a carpet resembling Brussels, but in which the warp-yarn forming the pile is coloured so as to produce the pattern when woven. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > carpet with woven pattern tapestry-carpet1858 tapestry1879 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tapestry-carpets, the name generally given to a..two-ply or ingrain carpet, the warp or weft being printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth. tapestry-cloth n. a piece of tapestry; spec. a corded linen prepared for ‘tapestry-painting’ ( Cent. Dict.). ΚΠ 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 656/2 Long and large tapistrie clothes. tapestry-moth n. a species of clothes-moth, as Tinea tapetzella; cf. carpet-moth n. at carpet n. Compounds 1e. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > clothes-moth mothOE moch1637 clothes-moth1753 tapestry-moth1815 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > clothes-moth > trichophaga tapetzella tapestry-moth1815 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. viii. 233 T[inea] tapetzella, or the tapestry moth, not uncommon in our houses, is most injurious to the lining of carriages. tapestry needle n. a blunt needle with a large eye used in tapestry-making and canvas embroidery. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > needle tambour-needle1798 tapestry1879 tambour hook1880 tapestry needle1888 1888–9 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 64/2 The Household Needle Case contains darners, glovers, square-carpet, yarn, chenille, tapestry,..and crewel needles. 1967 E. Lemarchand Death of Old Girl xvii. 196 Tim Pollard watched her..as she plied a tapestry needle. Categories » tapestry-painting n. painting on linen in imitation of tapestry; material thus prepared. tapestry-stitch n. = Gobelin n. stitch; also applied to the cross- and tent-stitch work on fine canvas (tapisserie au petit point). Categories » tapestry-weaver n. one who weaves tapestry; also, a species of spider. tapestry-weaving n. the weaving of tapestry; the method of weaving by bobbin and comb, used in making tapestry, as distinct from weaving in a loom with a shuttle. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > tapestry weaving tapestry-weaving1796 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 345 The Flemings formerly engrossed tapestry-weaving to themselves. 1889 A. S. Cole Cantor Lect., Egyptian Tapestry i. 8 The process [anciently] employed is the same as that which was used by the great Flemish weavers..for making their splendid war tapestries, and is now commonly known as the tapestry weaving or Gobelins process. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). tapestryv. /ˈtapɪstri/ Etymology: < tapestry n. See also tapister v. 1. transitive. To cover, hang, or adorn with, or as with, tapestry. (Chiefly in passive.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [verb (transitive)] > hang or adorn with tapestry tapetc1369 hang1451 tapis1528 tapister1587 tapestrya1640 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [verb (transitive)] > cover or furnish with hangings tapetc1369 hang1451 estale1508 tapestrya1640 drapery1824 overhang1834 drape1847 slip-cover1886 a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §192 206 The ruins..is..tapestried with ivy. 1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher II. 102 The hardiest plant that tapestries the rude bosom of the North. 1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher II. 165 My walls..were tapestried with the rock lichen. 1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion II. 14 The grape-leaves with which the verandah was tapestried. 2. To work or depict in tapestry. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > manufacture ornamental textiles or trimmings [verb (transitive)] > work or depict in tapestry weavec1385 tapestry1814 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv^. 228 Remnants of tapestried hangings. View more context for this quotation 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta* II. xl. 144 Where Elizabethan mothers and daughters..had tapestried the love-scenes of Isaac and Jacob. Derivatives ˈtapestried adj. adorned with tapestry; woven in the manner of tapestry. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [adjective] > tapestry > hung or adorned with hanged1451 well hanged1479 well-hung1637 tapestried1769 tapestry-worked1883 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [adjective] > covered or hung with tapestry tapestried1769 1769 W. Jones Palace of Fortune 24 Some tap'stried hall, or gilded bower. 1794 R. Southey Retrospect 104 Still with pleasure I recall The tapestried school, the bright brown-boarded hall. 1814 [see sense 2]. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xlii. 165 Making covers of..net-work for these tapestried cushions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1434v.a1640
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