In September 2000, the Louvre Museum dedicated the Gilbert Chagoury and Rose-Marie Chagoury Gallery to display tapestries donated by the Chagourys, including a 16th-century six-part tapestry suite, sewn with gold and silver threads representing sea divinities, which was commissioned in Paris for Colbert de Seignelay, Secretary of State for the Navy.

The laboratory also conserves tapestries, needlepoint, upholstery, costumes, and other textiles for its clients.

Facsimiles of the unicorn tapestries are currently being woven for permanent display in Stirling Castle, Scotland, to take the place of a set recorded in the castle in a 16th century inventory.

One of his most important papal commissions was the Raphael Cartoons ( now Victoria and Albert Museum ), a series of 10 cartoons, of which seven survive, for tapestries with scenes of the lives of Saint Paul and Saint Peter, for the Sistine Chapel.

File: V & A-Raphael, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes ( 1515 ). jpg | The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, 1515, one of the seven remaining Raphael Cartoons for tapestries.

The walls are richly decorated with tapestries depicting the history and legends of the Rohirrim, and it serves as a house for the King and his kin, a meeting hall for the King and his advisors, and a gathering hall.

These prisoners were mainly from the upper classes, and those who could afford to pay for additional luxuries lived in good conditions, wearing their own clothes, living in rooms decorated with tapestries and carpets or taking exercise around the castle garden and along the walls.

Payments made for the ceremony include hanging tapestries ; carrying church furnishings from the Palace chapel into the Abbey ; eleven chaplains ; boards for stages in the Abbey ; and messengers sent to summon the ladies of the kingdom.

During occasional ceremonies of particular importance, the side walls are covered with a series of tapestries, the originals of which were designed for the chapel by Raphael and depict events from the Life of St. Peter and the Life of St. Paul as described in the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles: the full-size preparatory cartoons for seven of the ten tapestries are known as the Raphael Cartoons and are in London.

Raphael's tapestries were looted during the Sack of Rome in 1527 and were either burnt for their precious metal content or were scattered around Europe.

The family still operates it, and Château Cheverny remains a top tourist attraction to this day, renowned for magnificent interiors and its collection of furniture, tapestries, and objets d ' art.

On the walls, a suite of 16th-century Flemish tapestries represents scenes from castle life, a request for marriage and a hunt.

Apart from the religious and mythological images, hunting scenes are the subject of many tapestries produced for indoor decoration.

The basic tools have remained much the same since then. A typical loom for hand weaving of smaller tapestries still in use in Scandinavia.

Morris & Co. made successful series of tapestries for home and ecclesiatical uses, with figures based on cartoons by Edward Burne-Jones.

Also on loan to the museum, from Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II, are the Raphael Cartoons: the seven surviving ( there were ten ) full scale designs for tapestries in the Sistine Chapel, of the lives of Peter and Paul from the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.

Diagram of the fresco decoration of the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel comprises frescoes and a set of tapestries.

They are the only surviving members of a set of ten cartoons commissioned by Pope Leo X for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace, which are still ( on special occasions ) hung below Michelangelo's famous ceiling.

* this article, contains a good account of tapestries in general, and the Sistine set in particular

The ceiling's various painted elements form part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Chapel, which includes the large fresco The Last Judgment on the sanctuary wall, also by Michelangelo, wall paintings by several leading painters of the late 15th century including Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Pietro Perugino, and a set of large tapestries by Raphael, the whole illustrating much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

* The chapel features Christian artifacts that predate the original chapel, sometimes by multiple centuries, and which have been collected and displayed at the Chapel for years, including ancient Spanish tapestries, coats of arms, various crucifixes, and even a contemporary rooftop.

Trivulzio accumulated huge amounts of money, which he used in part as a patron of arts, in particular of works by Bramantino: these include the Trivulzio Chapel in the Basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo, where he was buried, and the tapestries cycle of the Twelve Months now in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

Ask to see the modern tapestries of Paris and Rome designed by Lurcat.

The building, raised 47 feet off the ground around a central core, features four massive walls, made of sections of inch-thick hammered glass mural tapestries, designed and manufactured in France.

* The biggest collection of Flanders tapestry is in the Spanish royal collection, there is 8000 metres of historical tapestry from Flanders, as well as Spanish tapestries designed by Goya and others.

The collection has numerous examples of various types of textiles designed by William Morris, including, embroidery, woven fabrics, tapestries ( Including ' The Forest ' tapestry of 1887 ), rugs and carpets, as well as pattern books and paper designs.

Interestingly, there are two tapestries designed by Dutch landscape painter William Van der Hagen, and woven by John Van Beaver, dating from circa 1733 in the hall.

The Raphael Cartoons are seven large cartoons for tapestries, belonging to the British Royal Collection but since 1865 on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, designed by the High Renaissance painter Raphael in 1515 – 16 and showing scenes from the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles.

The tapestries had very wide and elaborate borders, also designed by Raphael, which these cartoons omit ; presumably they had their own cartoons.

The lowest of three levels is painted to resemble draped hangings, and was ( and sometimes still is ) hung on special occasions with the set of tapestries designed by Raphael.

Giulio also designed tapestries.

At that time, Coxie also designed tapestries for the Brussels looms.

Coxie may also have designed the tapestries for Phillip II's Royal Palace of Madrid depicting episodes of the life of Cyrus II, based on the writing of Herodotus.

At the beginning of the 1980s he designed a series of tapestries for his old Oxford college and he returned to portraiture with a Portrait of Pella Erskine-Tulloch ( the bookbinder who bound Phillips ' favourite version of A Humument in three volumes ).

The marble-walled dining room was designed to display Beauvais tapestries, while the newly installed curved, marble staircase surrounded Bergonzoli's statue " The Love of Angels ".

This journey supplied him with scenes for later works, including tapestries designed 1545 / 48 for the Regent, Mary of Hungary.

The opening sequence of the 1982 animated movie The Last Unicorn was designed in reference to the tapestries, with many elements such as the fountain and lions, as well as the overall style being extremely similar.

In addition to painting, he designed tapestries, etchings, stained glass windows for the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, and the organ screen for the St. Laurenskerk in Rotterdam.

The state seal, which is featured throughout the buildings on the state flag, tapestries, railing, door handles and elsewhere, was designed by Olympia Jeweler Charles Talcot by making two circles and putting a two-cent stamp of George Washington in the middle.

He also designed tapestries for the Gobelins factory that depicted accurate historical details of the battles, and created paintings of hunting parties and landscapes.

He undertook commissions for Versailles and Fontainebleau between 1724 and 1737, and designed two sets of tapestries for the Gobelins, each of seven subjects, the Histoire d ' Esther ( 1737 – 40 ) and the Histoire de Jason ( 1743 – 46 ).