tapestry-workn.
= tapestry n. 1.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [noun] > tapestry
tapissery1426
tapestry1434
tapestry-work1434
tapisser-work1459
tapester-work1472
1434 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 43 Lectum meum de tapstriwerke cum leonibus et pelicano.
1459 in Paston Lett. I. 479 Item, j testyr of blewe tapistry warke.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1332/1 The feast was excellentlie well furnished of all things, & speciallie of tapistrie worke & other deuises of sugar.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xlviii. 227 The course rough wool..hath been of auncient time highly commended and accounted of in tapestrie worke.
1812 M. Edgeworth Vivian viii, in Tales Fashionable Life IV. 198 Miss Strictland [followed] bearing her ladyship's tapestry work.
Derivatives
ˈtapestry-worked adj. tapestried.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [adjective] > tapestry > hung or adorned with
hanged1451
well hanged1479
well-hung1637
tapestried1769
tapestry-worked1883
1883 R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. II. xxi. 60 Two large tapestry-worked screens.
ˈtapestry-worker n. one who works or makes tapestry.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > [noun] > making tapestry > one who
tapestry-maker1611
tapestry-worker1727
tapestry-man1728
tapestry artist1908
1727 (title) The Practice of Perspective..a work highly necessary for Painters, Embroiderers, Jewellers, Tapestry Workers.
1908 H. Pentin Judith iv. 77 ‘Judith and Holofernes’ was also a favourite subject for tapestry-workers.
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