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a wall of woven propaganda before anyone invented the printing press.
means A heavy decorative cloth into which pictures or patterns are woven by hand, often hung on walls; also, figuratively, any rich and intricate combination of many elements.
from From Old French 'tapisserie,' from 'tapis' (a carpet or heavy cloth), which traces back through Latin 'tapete' to Greek 'tapes' — a woven cover or rug. The Greek word itself may be a borrowing from further east, where such weaving had deep roots, though the trail there grows faint. The English '-stry' ending arrived a bit muddled, as if the word picked up an extra thread on the way over the Channel.
- slow craft
- One square meter could take a weaver months.
- portable wealth
- Kings rolled them up and traveled with the heat.
- bayeux record
- A 70-meter cloth narrates the 1066 conquest.
- woven not painted
- Every color is thread, dyed and interlocked by hand.
- insulation hack
- Stone castles hung them to trap warmth indoors.
bayeux tapestry — 11th century norman embroidery depicting the 1066 conquest of england, 230 feet long
angers apocalypse tapestry — 14th century french tapestry with 90 surviving panels illustrating the book of revelation
unicorn tapestries — seven 15th-16th century flemish tapestries at the met museum depicting the hunt of the unicorn