0 a piece of cloth with a pattern or picture that is created by sewing or weaving different coloured threads onto a special type of strong cloth:
1 a strong cloth with colored threads woven into it to create a picture or design, usually hung on a wall or used to cover furniture:
[ C ] Mitchell creates tapestries that depict river landscapes.
Her next novel is about a set of tapestries hanging in the Musee Cluny in Paris.
In the chair crouched the figure of Vanessa Dersingham, stitching a tapestry .
The end result may best be described as a tapestry woven of fragments.
The authors see language acquisition as part of "an elegant tapestry of multiplicity" (p. 87).
In this tapestry are woven together threads representing pedagogy, assessment, industry requirements and practitioner sophistication.
The organisation of the essay follows several threads over time - thereby showing the 'tapestry' of forces at play.
As such it is a brilliant and richly-woven tapestry, full of insight and fresh ideas.
