Tapestry

Tapestry, fabric woven with colored threads to form a design and used to cover walls and furniture. Vertical threads, which make up the warp are stretched on a loom, and horizontal threads, which make up the weft, are woven over and under them and then compacted. Tapestries were known in ancient Egypt, Syria, Persia, and China. North Europe's great era of tapestry-making began in the 1300s, notably at Arras in Flanders. It reached a peak in the Gobelin tapestries of the 1600s. Great painters who have made tapestry designs include Raphael and Rubens. The Peter Paul Bayeux tapestry is in fact embroidery.