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unusual facts about Tapestry


Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli

For many years its administration remained under the control of the Reale Laboratorio delle Pietre Dure (Royal Gemstone Laboratory) and the Reale Fabbrica degli Arazzi (Royal Tapestry Factory).


Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas

This tapestry was seized by the victorious Christians at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa on July 16, 1212.

Alfred Atmore Pope

They bought majolica and frames in Venice, and a Roman bust from an Italian dealer; Whistler and Charles Méryon prints, a boulle inkstand, mahogany liquor case, Persian rugs and a William Morris tapestry based on Walter Crane's The Goose Girl in London; and in Paris a Venetian mirror, Antoine-Louis Barye bronzes, Japanese prints and three Monets from leading art dealers Boussoud, Valadon.

Art in Paris

The exhibits in the museum are the former with the prized tapestry cycle The Lady and the Unicorn (La Dame à la Licorne), Netherlands tapestries of the late-15th-century, and gold, ivory and enamel artifacts including manuscripts which are lighted.

Aubusson, Creuse

Coventry cathedral's famous Christ in Glory tapestry, designed by artist Graham Sutherland, was woven in nearby Felletin.

Basel Historical Museum

Leading highlights include: the Basel Cathedral treasure, the Basel and Strasbourg tapestries, the fragments of Basel’s dance of death, altars and ecclesiastical graphic works, the estate of Erasmus of Rotterdam, the coin cabinet and glass painting.

Bettie Cilliers-Barnard

Most recently in 1992 she painted "Vision" for the Pretoria Eye Institute and some of her other commissions including the painting "Flight" for South African Airways, 1983, the tapestry "Guardian Angel of the Arts" for t he State Theatre of Pretoria, 1981, and her mural in oils "Mensa sana corpore sano" for the Department of Health in Pretoria, 1980.

Catechetical School of Alexandria

The new school currently has campuses in Alexandria, Cairo, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, where Coptic priests-to-be and other qualified men and women are taught on subjects including Christian theology, history, Coptic language and art – including chanting, music, iconography, and tapestry.

Dallas Denny

She was Director of the transgender conference Fantasia Fair for five years and from 1999-2008 editor of Transgender Tapestry Journal, published by the International Foundation for Gender Education.

Dan Falk

He has written for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, Cottage Life, SkyNews, Astronomy and New Scientist, and has contributed to the CBC radio programs Ideas, Quirks and Quarks, Tapestry and Spark.

Dolores Dembus Bittleman

Bittleman's work includes fiber and silk tapestries that have featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.

East Meon

In 1986, the 900th anniversary of the "Domesday Book", East Meon was chosen as "The Domesday Village", with a model in Winchester's Great Hall depicting the village as it was then - the model can still be seen alongside the famous tapestry at Bayeux in Normandy.

Jeffrey Ryan

Ryan has been commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra, the Windsor Symphony, Esprit Orchestra, Tapestry New Opera Works, the Arditti Quartet, and Elektra Women's Choir.

Jim McCrary

Jim McCrary (Aug. 31, 1939 – April 29, 2012) was a photographer known for his 1970s album covers, most notably Carole King's Tapestry, The Carpenters' Ticket to Ride, and Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

John Tutchin

Even after his death under suspicious circumstances, he was not widely mourned, and Alexander Pope, in particular, memorialized him viciously in The Dunciad a full seventeen years after his death, where he has the publisher Edmund Curll given a gift of a tapestry by Dulness showing the fates of dunces, where the whipping of Tutchin through the west country is a featured panel.

Komikwerks

Titles include The Forest King by Dan Mishkin and Tom Mandrake, What I did on my Hypergalactic Interstellar Summer Vacation by Adam Beechen and Dan Hipp, Heir to Fire by Rob M. Worley and Mike Dubisch, Spirit of the Samurai by Gary Reed and Rick Hoberg and The Anubis Tapestry by Bruce Zick, Blackfoot Braves Society by Christopher E. Long and Michael Geiger.

Léopold Survage

Although mainly a painter, he also produced stage, tapestry, and textile designs during this period (notably for the house of Chanel in 1933).

Manchester High School for Girls

At Exeter College they admired a tapestry designed by Edward Burne – Jones, saw Holman Hunt’s picture, “The Light of the World” at Keble and recognised boxwood carvings by Grinling Gibbons in the chapel of Trinity College.

Manchester School of Art

When founded, the school promoted the Arts and Crafts movement's philosophy and its collection includes metalwork, jewellery, wallpapers, a tapestry made by Morris & Co. designed by Edward Burne-Jones, Whitefriars glass by James Powell and Sons and George Henry Walton, silverware by Charles Robert Ashbee and ceramics from Pilkington's Art Pottery.

María Simón

She also participated in the Venice Biennale (1972), Biennale of Tapestry in Lausanne, Biennials of Engraving at Ljubljana and in Puerto Rico, the First International Sculpture Street Exhibition in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and the Basel Fair.

Moravská gobelínová manufaktura

The Moravská gobelínová manufaktura — MGM, is a tapestry manufactory located in the town of Valašské Meziříčí, in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic.

In 1898, after returning from the Nordic countries, he established a tapestry-weaving practice in the village of Zašová, near the Moravian town of Valašské Meziříčí.

Night Beats

1 on the Light In The Attic Records label, a deluxe double LP featuring rare and exclusive tracks from Night Beats, Eternal Tapestry, Prince Rama, AFCGT, and other established and up and coming psychedelic acts curated by Seattle's Portable Shrines Collective.

Parliament House, Canberra

The public entrance to Parliament House opens into a main foyer leading into the Great Hall, which features a tapestry based on a painting by Arthur Boyd, the original of which is also displayed in the building.

Rona Randall

In 1970, Broken Tapestry, her contemporary novel about a broken family, won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo

Over the tapestry of the Crucifixion (executed in Antwerp on Ludwig van Schoor's cartoons, 1698) is a painting by Luca Giordano, with the Passage of the Red Sea (1691).

Screen Door

Screen Door (formerly Tapestry Pictures Inc.) is a Canadian independent production company founded in 1999 by Mary Young Leckie and Heather Haldane.

Sewing needle

Darning: Sometimes called finishing needles, these are designed with a blunt tip and large eye making them similar to tapestry needles but longer; yarn darners are the heaviest sub-variety.

Silvio Passerini

At Florence he commissioned a tapestry from cartoons by Andrea del Sarto and Raffaellino del Garbo, which is conserved in the diocesan museum at Cortona.

Spratt's Complex

At that time the Spratt's Works was a hard-working colony whose residents included artists, photographers, the Queen's tapestry restorer Ksynia Marko, a packaging firm, Roger Law of Spitting Image, sculptor Michael Green and ceramicist Elizabeth Fritsch.

St. Gereon's Basilica, Cologne

Cloth of St Gereon, that hung in the choir area, the oldest surviving European tapestry.

Stapleton, Shropshire

The church organ is among the top six hundred in the country and there is a small tapestry piece in the nave said to have been worked by Mary, Queen of Scots.

Stuart Hall High School

Henry H. Neff, Author of The Tapestry children's books series.

The Fionavar Tapestry

It is the story of five University of Toronto senior law and medical students, who are drawn into the 'first world of the Tapestry' by the mage Loren Silvercloak.

The Great Red Dragon Paintings

In the 3rd book of Henry H. Neff's The Tapestry series, Prusias is often associated by Max with this phrase, and when Prusias is angry, his shadow turns into a dragon.

The Legendary Demos

It includes thirteen demo recordings, ranging in time from Crying in the Rain (1962) to six tracks that appeared on King's 1971 hit album Tapestry.

The Lich

In the opening scene, Herpich used unicorn symbolism, most notable the tapestry The Unicorn is in Captivity and No Longer Dead, a piece of the seven-part tapestry The Hunt of the Unicorn, to illustrate the themes of the episode.

Théobald Michau

Subjects of the country festivals (Kermesse) that were popularized by David Teniers, father and son to the extent that paintings and tapestries showing such rustic themes were called Ténières.

Vertumnus

The subject was even woven into tapestry in series with the generic theme Loves of the Gods, of which the mid-16th-century Brussels tapestry at Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, woven to cartoons attributed to Jan Vermeyen, must be among the earliest.

Vladimir Gorsky

The "Tapestry" is currently on display at the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas.

Yves Brayer

He also created murals and wall ornamentations, tapestry cartoons, maquettes, sets, and costumes for the Théâtre Français and the operas of Paris, Amsterdam, Nice, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Avignon.


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