gobelins

As the word arras had entered English vocabularies centuries before, gobelins became a synonym for tapestry hanging, regardless of the place of origin.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Thorneycroft and Hogan too: sprids serve me! gobelins guard!

Finnegans Wake 2006

Paris, magnificent porcelain from Sèvres, precious gobelins and silks from Lyons and Rouen, rare wines from Bordeaux, tropic fruits from

Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

But the main interest in this room centered in the four mighty gobelins.

Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

These gobelins were, by the charm of their colors and the delicacy of the composition, a source of enjoyment to every lover of art.

Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

Within a frame of gobelins and Beauvais tapestry taken from the repository, was an improvised scene that looked like a green and pink nest of camellias, dracænas and palms.

His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876

Time, like a weaver, made strange, dim, confused masses of woof and warf; but in Eternity the earthwork would be turned, and delicate tracery and marvellous coloring, divine gobelins, would come to light.

Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

this festival lasts one week, and every year the openings are created by students of gobelins, one group/short for each day of the week.

KN | Kitsune Noir » ‘Garuda’ 2010

The word tapestry suffers as much as any other -- witness the attempt made for hundreds of years among all nations to set apart a word that shall be used only to designate the hand-woven pictured hangings and coverings discussed in this book; arras, gobelins, _toile peinte_, etc. In English, tapestry may mean almost any decorative stuff, and so comes it that we speak of the wonderful hanging which gives name to this chapter as the tapestry of Bayeux (plates facing pages 242, 243 and 244), when it is in reality an embroidery.

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905