tapestry
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The tapestry holds a particular position in British public consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The loan marks the first time the tapestry has returned to the UK since it was created more than 900 years ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“We want the maximum number of kids to have access, to stand in front of that tapestry while it’s here in the U.K. It’s a major moment in our island’s history,” he told politicians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
But the reality is that it is impossible to unweave the tapestry of football history during that time and since - too much has happened and there are too many indirect consequences.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
She took a step back from the tapestry to better study the entire scope of it.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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“Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines,” opening Sunday at the Hammer Museum, traces that relentless drive across nearly 150 paintings, drawings, sculptures, garments and tapestries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The human body is everywhere in painting, sculpture, tapestries and photography, implicit in the metalwork of jewelry and armor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Highlights include the first painting he completed entirely on his own, as well as tapestries designed for the Sistine Chapel.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Inside, more than 150 works and objects - including paintings, sculptures, films, tapestries and photos - map the astonishing breadth of Husain's career, offering visitors a rare window into the artist's late-life reflections and inspirations.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
Snowy white chaises with chartreuse pillows, jade bedcurtains and saffron drapes, fuchsia walls and garnet tapestries.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The showiest destination of all is table 56, a dome-shaped tapestried booth.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2020
The film academy took the backdrop from the “Fit as a Fiddle” number in “Singin’ in the Rain,” the eerie landscape of “Forbidden Planet,” the tapestried walls of “Marie Antoinette,” the office from “Adam’s Rib.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
Their music echoes among the buttresses of the Hall’s ceiling, and dies in the tapestried dimness beyond our tables where the servants come and go.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2019
A wedding party of Africans and African-Americans tripped through, decked to the nines, some in gleaming white linen and tapestried skull caps.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2015
It was always cold in the tower, for all the carpets and the tapestried hangings and the rich furred clothing and the broad marble fireplaces they had.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Trees vaulted the way tapestrying it with their leaves, between which one caught peeps at the sea, a shimmer of blue through a shimmer of green.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
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