Tapestries Sentence Examples

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  • Tapestries and wall hangings can also offer a distinctive look.

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  • It contains some good pictures and fine tapestries.

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  • Its most famous portion is the Jerusalem chamber, believed to be named from the former tapestries on its walls, representing the holy city.

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  • Medieval literature abounds in references to Tristan and Iseult, and their adventures were translated into many tongues and are found depicted in carvings and tapestries.

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  • The formal gardens of Holland House are finely laid out, and the rooms of the house are both beautiful in themselves and enriched with collections of pictures, china and tapestries.

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  • It was built in 1778-1786 by Clement Wenceslaus the last elector of Trier, and contains among other curiosities some fine Gobelin tapestries.

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  • He trailed Memon up the stairs and down the main corridor, watching as Memon paused to take in ancient tapestries and evaluate gilded ornaments.

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  • The Crown Jewels, magnificent Tudor tapestries, coronation robes, royal doll's houses - the collections in our care really are unique.

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  • A series of 18th-century busts below the tapestries represent distinguished early scientists and philosophers.

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  • Weaver William Jefferies and bronze sculptor Philip Hearsey fill the gallery with figurative tapestries and abstract vessels.

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  • With the first and last tapestries in the series sitting together, both look equally striking.

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  • The Dining Room has two 16th century Flemish tapestries with hunting scenes also brought from Cotehele.

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  • For centuries tapestries were taken from house to house.

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  • However, if you are instead striving to make a comfortable and welcoming environment for your baby, allow yourself to understand the fact your infant simply will not care about designer furniture or legendary nursery wall tapestries.

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  • The Morning Room - sitting room overflowing with Spanish antiques and Flemish tapestries.

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  • Wall décor is kept to a minimum with large statement pieces like tapestries, metal grilles, and decorated tiles.

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  • Warm colors, rich tapestries, scrolled ironwork, beautiful tiles, and elegant marble were just some of the materials and textures used in the beautiful villages of the past, and they are echoed in homes throughout the world today.

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  • Other top tapestry websites for medieval-friendly style include Tapestries & Tassels and Home Decorators.

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  • Al Gitelman & Associates - Tapestries sells antique and reproduction tapestries to turn your home into a castle.

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  • Rich colored textures of various patterns including tapestries help create the comfort of a Mediterranean décor.

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  • Wall tapestries are a great addition and help to give a focal point to any room.

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  • Course fabrics and weaves like tapestries work well with rustic furnishings.

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  • Tapestries and richly woven rugs are also a way of accenting the design in Old World style.

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  • You can add natural textures that will go well with a giraffe border by hanging tapestries on the wall.

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  • Patriotic decor with a Christian influence is commonly seen in wall plaques, figurines, wreaths and tapestries.

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  • No matter what your personal style or what style your home is, cool wall tapestries can bring color, texture and interest to the space.

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  • Tapestries come in a wide range of colors, patterns, styles and fabric weights, which can allow you to find one that will fit in with any décor.

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  • While some people associate tapestries with Old World style decorating, cool wall tapestries in abstract patterns, bright colors and modern prints are available to fit the contemporary home as well.

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  • Tapestries are typically large, or may be divided in two or three panels that are hung next to one another to create one design.

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  • Tapestries can be found in prints that mimic other forms of wall art.

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  • These tapestries bring additional interest to the space because of the fibers and folds in the fabric.

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  • Tapestries made in abstract patterns, bold colors and rich patterns are a great way to add interest to a modern home.

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  • Look for tapestries that incorporate one or two colors already used in the room, along with an assortment of other shades.

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  • Cool wall tapestries can be found in many locations.

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  • Accommodating 2,620 passengers, Queen Mary II offers elegant decor showcasing 300 original works of art and one of the world's largest tapestries - all valued at greater than $5 million.

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  • Tapestries and Trees is a wholesaler in the South Carolina providing tapestries, cushions and other products.

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  • The company works with organizations who wish to sell tapestries through fundraising opportunities.

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  • Woven on low warp looms, master weavers duplicated the exquisite scenes of French tapestries using dyed wool and silk.

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  • Celtic knots and bands can be seen on many different tapestries and artwork from early on in the Middle Ages (and even before), and some early tattoos seen on the Celts and the Picts were created using knot designs.

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  • The inner walls are often hung with hand-woven tapestries, which harmonize well with the smokeblackened rafters, the primitive loom and the huge Dutch stove characteristic of a prosperous Rumanian farm.

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  • The carved wooden doors of both the north and the south portals are masterpieces respectively of Gothic and Renaissance workmanship. The church possesses an elaborate astronomical clock (1866) and tapestries of the 15th and 17th centuries; but its chief artistic treasures are stained glass windows of the 13th, 14th and 16th centuries, the most beautiful of them from the hand of the Renaissance artist, Engrand Le Prince, a native of Beauvais.

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  • At the exhibition of Abruzzese art, held at Chieti in 1905, fine specimens of goldsmiths' work of the 15th and r6th centuries, of majolica of the 17th and 18th centuries, and of tapestries and laces were brought together; and the reproduction of some of these is still carried on, the small town of Castelli being the centre of the manufacture.

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  • Tapestries were originally used to decorate the walls of palaces and castles in Europe.

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  • In the interior there are several interesting apartments; the chief of these is the ample council chamber with its fine tapestries, where an important wine sale is held annually.

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  • Inside are to be found some fine wood-carving, tapestries, pictures and a cumbrous safe in which the town charters were so jealously preserved that the garrison used to be called out and the city gates closed whenever they were consulted.

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  • Medieval tapestries, with ecclesiastical vestments, ornaments and some fine pieces of early woodwork, are also preserved in Bucharest museum.

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  • Her bouncy blond curls brushed his arm as she turned her head to take in the tapestries and look up at the murals on the ceilings.

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  • Giovanni, dating from 1576, is famous for its rich inlaid marbles, its Brussels tapestries, its roof painted by Matteo Preti (1661-1699), the picture by Michael Angelo da Caravaggio of the beheading of John the Baptist, numerous memorials of the knights and other relics.

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  • The museum includes 3300 books, many being of the 15th and 16th centuries, a department of engravings, a Virginia Room with portraits and relics, some tapestries, an excellent collection of casts and valuable American archaeological specimens.

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  • The capital is named after its founder, the Grand Master de la Valette, but from its foundation it has been called Valletta (pop. 1901, 24,685); it contains the palace of the Grand Masters, the magnificent Auberges of the several " Langues " of the Order, the unique cathedral of St John with the tombs of the Knights and magnificent tapestries and marble work; a fine opera house and hospital are conspicuous.

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  • It was sacked after the Bernese conquest (1536) and the introduction of Protestantism, but many ancient tapestries and other precious objects are still preserved in the Historical Museum at Bern.

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  • The governor's palace was formerly that of the grand master of the Maltese Order, and it also contains relics of the knights, tapestries, armour, &c. Extensive bagnios under the rock, formerly occupied by the slaves of the knights, are now used for stores.

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  • Between the ruins of two sacred buildings, with the town-wall to the south and a suburban hamlet known to ill fame as the Thieves' Row to the north of it, a lodging was prepared for the titular king of Scotland, and fitted up with tapestries taken from the Gordons after the battle of Corrichie.

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  • Among the more prominent secular buildings are the Giirzenich, a former meeting-place of the diets of the Holy Roman Empire, built between 1441 and 1447, of which the ground floor was in 1875 converted into a stock exchange, and the upper hall, capable of accommodating 3000 persons, is largely utilized for public festivities, particularly during the time of the Carnival; the Rathaus, dating from the 13th century, with beautiful Gobelin tapestries; the Tempelhaus, the ancestral seat of the patrician family of the Overstolzens, a beautiful building dating from the 13th century, and now the chamber of commerce; the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, in which is a collection of paintings by old Italian and Dutch masters, together with some works by modern artists; the Zeughaus, or arsenal, built on Roman foundations; the Supreme Court for the Rhine provinces; the post-office (1893); the Imperial Bank (Reichsbank); and the municipal library and archives.

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  • The count had valuable Gobelin tapestries and Persian carpets in the house.

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  • The Opera del Duomo contains models and pieces of sculpture connected with the cathedral; the Etruscan and Egyptian museum, the gallery of tapestries, the Michelangelo museum, the museum of natural history and other collections are all important in different ways.

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