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Famous Tapestries
Probably the most famous tapestry of all, 'The Bayeux Tapestry', shows the events surrounding the Battle of Hastings. Strictly speaking it isn't actually a tapestry at all, but instead an embroidery. In June 2007, the tapestry was listed on UNESCO's Memory Of The World Register.
The Trojan War Tapestry was referred to by Homer in Book 3 of the Iliad. Helen of Troy was said to be 'working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans.' This tapestry may have got lost in history, but if it had been made at the time, then it would explain how the battles were remembered in such great detail.
'The Apocalypse Tapestry' is the longest tapestry in the world and depict scenes from the Book of Revelation. You it was woven between 1373 1382 and the surviving hundred metres are displayed in the Chateaux D'Angers.
The Devonshire hunting tapestries, four Flemish tapestries dating from the middle of the 15th century, depict men and women hunting in a forest. The tapestries formerly belonged to the Duke of Devonshire and are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
'The Hunt Of The Unicorn', currently displayed at the Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is a seven piece tapestry which dates from 1495 to 1505.
Raphael's tapestries for the Sistine Chapel are still in great condition today, dating back to 1515. The Raphael Cartoons, or painting designs, have also survived.
'The New World Tapestry' is a 267 foot long tapestry, which depicts the colonisation of the Americas and is displayed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Again this is not strictly speaking a tapestry, but is instead an embroidery.
'The Pastoral Amusements' is a series of eight tapestries designed by John Baptiste Oudry.
'The Quaker Tapestry', is a modern set of embroidery panels that tell the story of Quakerism from the 17th century the present-day.
Who knows, maybe you could make the next generation of famous tapestries to go in our tapestry Hall of Fame!
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