Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

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.

Leather was even more protection against draughts and dampness than tapestry and unaffected by insects.

When his business was enlarged in 1881 by the establishment of a tapestry industry at Merton Abbey Mills, in South West London, Morris found yet another means for expressing the medievalism that inspired all his work, whether on paper or at the loom.

The Bayeux Tapestry has been claimed to show Harold's death by an arrow to the eye, but that may be a later reworking of the tapestry to conform to 12th-century stories in which Harold was slain by an arrow wound to the head.

According to Ovid, the goddess was so envious of the magnificent tapestry and the mortal weaver's success, and perhaps offended by the girl's choice of subjects ( the loves and transgressions of the gods ), that she destroyed the tapestry and loom and slashed the girl's face.

French legend maintained the tapestry was commissioned and created by Queen Matilda, William the Conqueror's wife, and her ladies-in-waiting.

The reasons for the Odo commission theory include: 1 ) three of the bishop's followers mentioned in the Domesday Book appear on the tapestry ; 2 ) it was found in Bayeux Cathedral, built by Odo ; and 3 ) it may have been commissioned at the same time as the cathedral's construction in the 1070s, possibly completed by 1077 in time for display on the cathedral's dedication.

Assuming Odo commissioned the tapestry, it was probably designed and constructed in England by Anglo-Saxon artists ( Odo's main power base being by then in Kent ); the Latin text contains hints of Anglo-Saxon ; other embroideries originate from England at this time ; and the vegetable dyes can be found in cloth traditionally woven there.

George Beech suggests the tapestry was executed at the Abbey of St. Florent in the Loire Valley, and says the detailed depiction of the Breton campaign argues for additional sources in France.

Andrew Bridgeford has suggested that the tapestry was actually of English design and encoded with secret messages meant to undermine Norman rule.

The tapestry begins with a panel of Edward the Confessor sending Harold to Normandy .< sup >( scene 1 )</ sup > Later Norman sources say that the mission was for Harold to pledge loyalty to William but the tapestry does not suggest any specific purpose.

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 less than three weeks after the Battle of Stamford Bridge but the tapestry does not provide this context.

The first reference to the tapestry is from 1476 when it was listed in an inventory of the treasures of Bayeux Cathedral.

He had no idea whether the original was a sculpture or painting though he mooted it could be a tapestry.

However, the Benedictine scholar Bernard de Montfaucon made more successful investigations and found that the sketch was of a small portion of a tapestry preserved at Bayeux Cathedral.

The tapestry was first briefly noted in English in 1743 by William Stukeley, in his Palaeographia Britannica.

During the French Revolution, in 1792, the tapestry was confiscated as public property to be used for covering military wagons.

Despite scholars ' concern that the tapestry was becoming damaged the council refused to return it to the Cathedral.

Stothard's images are still of value as a record of the tapestry as it was before 19th-century restoration.

By 1842 the tapestry was displayed in a special-purpose room in the Bibliothèque Publique.

It was only on 22 August that the SS attempted to take possession of the tapestry by which time the Louvre was again in French hands.

English tapestry making and embroidery in the early 14th century were of an especially high quality ; works produced by nuns and London professionals were exported across Europe, becoming known as the opus anglicanum.

In the US the fleeces are becoming of interest to fibre artists and hand spinners for use in tapestry and the making of rugs and saddle blankets.

Bayeux is a major tourist attraction, best known to British and French visitors for the Bayeux tapestry, made to commemorate events in the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

The Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas is a template for a tapestry made by this factory.

This sphere deals directly with Quintessence, the raw material of the tapestry, which is the metaphysical structure of reality.

With regards to interior decoration, Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings.

In New Orleans, jazz had been ensemble playing, with the various instruments weaving their parts into a single and coherent aural tapestry.

Maiden with Unicorn, tapestry, 15th century ( Musée de Cluny, Paris )

During two decades ' involvement with the Beauvais tapestry workshops Boucher produced designs for six series of hangings in all.

We are not born with an ‘ I ’ – the ego emerges only gradually as experience shapes our dense web of active symbols into a tapestry rich and complex enough to begin twisting back upon itself.

The tapestry consists of some fifty scenes with Latin tituli ( captions ), embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns.

In common with other embroidered hangings of the early medieval period, this piece is conventionally referred to as a " tapestry ", although it is not a true tapestry in which the design is woven into the cloth ; it is in fact an embroidery.

The tapestry may well have maintained much of its original appearance — it now compares closely with a careful drawing made in 1730.

Evidence of this can be found in a comparison with engravings of the tapestry in 1729 by Bernard de Montfaucon, in which the arrow is absent ( see illustration above ).

As a normative term, it refers to ideologies or policies that promote this diversity or its institutionalisation ; in this sense, multiculturalism is a society “ at ease with the rich tapestry of human life and the desire amongst people to express their own identity in the manner they see fit .” Such ideologies or policies vary widely, including country to country, ranging from the advocacy of equal respect to the various cultures in a society, to a policy of promoting the maintenance of cultural diversity, to policies in which people of various ethnic and religious groups are addressed by the authorities as defined by the group they belong to.

The early works of Marillion contained Fish's poetic and introspective lyrics melded with a complex and subtle musical tapestry to create a sound that reflected the band's influences, notably Queen, early Genesis, Pink Floyd, Van der Graaf Generator, Rush ( specifically from the late 1970s ), and Yes.

Queen Elizabeth II approved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, in recognition of which the force presented the sovereign with a tapestry rendering of the new design.

The coats-of-arms woven into the tapestry are of England ( parted as usual with France ) and the portcullis badge of the Beauforts, which the early Tudor kings later used in their arms.

The parades, the streets lined with tapestry hung from houses, the feasting, the masques and allegorical entertainments, the jewels, impressed all observers as " the marriage of the century ".

The walls are covered with a 16th-century Flemish tapestry suite representing the siege of Troy and the kidnapping of Hélène, Circus Games in the Coliseum, and the crowning of King David.

Note the 19th-century Neuilly tapestry symbolizing the Cher, on which a Venetian gondola is portrayed ; the gondola was actually brought to Chenonceau in the 19th century, with its gondolier, by Madame Pelouze, the owner at that time.