Editing Tapestry (section)

==List of famous tapestries==
[[File:Neuwiller StPierre-Paul 237.JPG|thumb|''St Adelphus gives clothes to the poor'', part of the tapestry of the ''Life and Miracles of St Adelphus'', c. 1510 ([[Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, Neuwiller-lès-Saverne]])]]
[[File:Tapestry with the royal monogram of Žygimantas Augustas (King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania), circa 1555 (2).jpg|thumb|Tapestry with monogram "SA" of King [[Sigismund II Augustus]] of [[Poland]]/[[Lithuania]], [[Brussels]], c. 1555. Part of famous [[Jagiellonian tapestries]], also known as the [[Wawel]] Tapestries or Wawel Arrases.]]

* The Trojan War tapestry referred to by [[Homer]] in Book III of the [[Iliad]], where [[Iris (mythology)|Iris]] disguises herself as [[Laodice (daughter of Priam)|Laodice]] and finds [[Helen of Troy|Helen]] "working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and [[Achaeans (Homer)|Achaeans]], that [[Ares]] had made them fight for her sake." Though the composition of the Iliad spanned a period of approximately 700 years, it is worth noting that this method of weaving was in common use in or before the eighth century BC.
* The [[Sampul tapestry]], woollen wall hanging, 3rd–2nd century BC, Sampul, [[Ürümqi]] [[Xinjiang]] [[Museum]].
* [[The Hestia Tapestry]], 6th century, Byzantine Egypt, [[Dumbarton Oaks]] Collection.
* The Cloth of Saint Gereon – early 11th-century, the oldest European tapestry still extant.
* [[Tapestry of Creation]], 11th-century, Spain. Large needlework hanging with religious scenes
* The [[Överhogdal tapestries]] – Viking hangings of 1040 to 1170.
* The [[Bayeux Tapestry]] is an embroidered cloth — not an actual tapestry — nearly 70 metres (230&nbsp;ft) long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England, likely made in England — not Bayeux — in the 1070s
* The ''[[Apocalypse Tapestry]]'' depicts scenes from the [[Book of Revelation]]. It was woven between 1373 and 1382. Originally 140&nbsp;m (459&nbsp;ft), the surviving 100m are displayed in the [[Château d'Angers]], in [[Angers]].
* The six-part piece ''La Dame à la Licorne'' (''[[The Lady and the Unicorn]]''), stored in l'Hôtel de Cluny, [[Paris]].
* The [[Devonshire Hunting Tapestries]], four Flemish tapestries dating from the mid-fifteenth century depict men and women in fashionable dress of the early fifteenth century hunting in a forest. The tapestries formerly belonged to the [[Duke of Devonshire]] and are now in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].
* ''[[The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald]]'', a tapestry dating from about 1450.
* ''[[The Triumph of Fame]]'', a tapestry made in Flanders in the 1500s.
[[File:Tapestry showing Constantine's Triumphal Entry into Rome.jpg|thumb|''Constantine's Triumphal Entry into Rome'', from ''[[The History of Constantine]]'', designed by [[Peter Paul Rubens]] and Pietro da Cortona, 1622]]
* ''[[The Hunt of the Unicorn]]'' is a seven piece tapestry from 1495 to 1505, currently displayed at [[The Cloisters]], [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York.
* ''[[Les Chasses de Maximilien]]'' (The Hunts of Maximilian) is a series of twelve tapestries woven in [[Brussels]] after the designs of [[Bernard van Orley]].
* ''The Life and Miracles of [[Adelphus|St Adelphus]]'', a late 15th-century or early 16th-century cycle of tapestries (four surviving parts), possibly based on designs by [[Jost Haller]], total length {{Convert|20|m|abbr=on}}, in the [[Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, Neuwiller-lès-Saverne]].
* The tapestries for the [[Sistine Chapel]], designed by [[Raphael]] in 1515–16, for which the [[Raphael Cartoons]], or painted designs, also survive.
* The [[Jagiellonian tapestries]], (mid 16th century) a collection of 134 tapestries at the [[Wawel Castle]] in [[Kraków]], Poland displaying various religious, natural, and royal themes. These famous tapestries, created in [[Arras]], were collected by Polish Kings [[Sigismund I the Old]] and [[Sigismund II Augustus]], whose reigns were between 1506 and 1572.
* The [[Valois Tapestries]] are a cycle of 8 hangings depicting royal festivities in [[France]] in the 1560s and 1570s
* ''[[The History of Constantine]]'', a series of tapestries designed by [[Peter Paul Rubens]] and Italian artist Pietro da Cortona in 1622.
* ''[[The Death of Polydorus]]'', one of a set of seven tapestries showing a scene from the ''[[Iliad]]'' by Homer.
* The biggest collection of Flanders tapestry is in the [[Spanish royal collection]], there is 8000 metres of historical tapestry from Flanders, as well as Spanish tapestries designed by [[Francisco Goya|Goya]] and others. There is a special museum in the [[Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso]], and others are displayed in various historic buildings.
* Tentures des Indes is a ten-piece tapestry set made between 1708 and 1710 are the only intact collection in existence made by the famous French manufacturer the [[Gobelins Manufactory]]. They are still hanging in their original place in the Tapestry chamber at the [[Grandmaster's Palace, Valletta]], [[Malta]].
* ''[[The Pastoral Amusements]]'', also known as "Les Amusements champêtres", a series of 8 Beauvais Tapestries designed by [[Jean-Baptiste Oudry]] between 1720 and 1730.
* The [[Prestonpans Tapestry]] is a 104 metres long [[embroidery]] which tells the story of [[Bonnie Prince Charlie]] and the [[Battle of Prestonpans]].
* ''Le Bouquet '' (1951) by [[Marc Saint-Saens]] is among the best and most representative French tapestries of the fifties. It is a tribute to Saint-Saens's predilection for scenes from nature and rustic life.<ref>HENG, Michèle (1989), Marc Saint-Saens décorateur mural et peintre cartonnier de tapisserie, 1964 pages.</ref>
* ''[[Triumph of Peace]]'' (1953) by [[Peter Colfs]]. On display in  the [[Headquarters of the United Nations|United Nations Headquarters]], Delegates' lobby of the [[United Nations General Assembly|General Assembly]], it was at the time of production with 43.5 x 28.5 feet (13.3 m x 8.7 m) the largest mural tapestry in the world.<ref>{{cite web|title="Triumph of Peace" Tapestry Gets a Cleaning|url=https://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail.jsp?id=297/297467&key=58&query=mural&so=0&sf=score|publisher=unmultimedia|date=15 October 1995|access-date=18 August 2020|language=en}}</ref>
* ''Christ in Glory'', (1962) for [[Coventry Cathedral]] designed by [[Graham Sutherland]]. Up until the 1990s this was the world's largest vertical tapestry.
*''[[The World Trade Center Tapestry]]'', a large 1973 tapestry by [[Joan Miró]] and [[Josep Royo]].
* The [[Quaker Tapestry]] (1981–1989) is a modern set of [[embroidery]] panels that tell the story of Quakerism from the 17th century to the present day.
* The [[New World Tapestry]] is a 267 feet long embroidery, begun in the 1980s, which depicts the colonisation of the Americas between 1583 and 1648, which was displayed at the [[British Empire and Commonwealth Museum]], now defunct.
* The [[Great Tapestry of Scotland]] is a modern series of embroidered cloths, made up of 160 hand stitched panels, depicting aspects of the history of Scotland from 8500 BC until 2013. At 143 metres (469&nbsp;ft) long, it is the longest tapestry in the world.